When Jimmy Met Tony
Black robe supremacy and the injustice inherent in the system
President Trump thinks James Boasberg, “this radical left lunatic of a judge,” should be impeached, and Trump might have a case. Boasberg ordered deportation flights of criminal illegals of the Tren de Aragua gang, to turn around and return stateside. That action is hardly the only reason to boot Boasberg, appointed to the DC District Court in 2011 by the composite character president formerly known as Barry Soetoro.
In 2014, Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Boasberg to the court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, a secret body with no precedent in American history. In January 2020, Boasberg became presiding judge of the FISA court, where he handled a case central to the deep state campaign against candidate and President Donald Trump.
Navy veteran Carter Page, who worked with the Trump campaign in 2016, had served as an asset for the CIA. One of the applications to surveille Page came from Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI’s Assistant General Counsel in the bureau’s National Security and Cyber Law Branch. Clinesmith altered an email to show that Page was not a CIA asset, exposing Page to surveillance from the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” operation against Trump.
FISA judge Boasberg signed off on the surveillance and DC District judge Boasberg handled the case of Clinesmith. Boasberg passed off the FBI official as an “obscure government lawyer” caught in a “media hurricane,” a curious choice of words. According to Boasberg, the warrant to surveille Page would have been approved even without Clinesmith’s “misstatement,” which was only an “inappropriate shortcut” to save time, and so on.
The FBI assistant general counsel deserved the maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Boasberg let Clinesmith off with 12 months probation and 400 hours community service. That is hard to top but the judge was up to the task.
Boasberg ordered the return of depraved criminals, many of them murderers, and all in the country illegally. The Yale law alum then wondered why the president wasn’t obeying his orders. As Trump explained, the Obama judge “was not elected president,” the only government official elected by all the people. If this seems confusing, the famous Monty Python scene may add some enlightenment.
As the peasant Dennis (Michael Palin) told King Arthur (Graham Chapman), “supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses,” not from an appointment to the federal bench or secret court. Nobody voted for Boasberg, who on the FISA court wielded more power than Supreme Court justices.
Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett et al operate in public, must consider all sides, and cannot slide down to lower courts to rule on cases they previously heard. By ordering the return of criminal illegals, Boasberg was exercising executive power in defiance of the law. In effect, the Obama judge functioned as a pro-bono attorney for the Tren de Aragua criminals and the oppressive Maduro regime.
Boasberg thus makes the best case for his own impeachment, which apparently is already in progress. Congress should also eliminate the FISA court – as the Washington Post says, “democracy dies in darkness”—and the DC District, home to Obama judge Tanya Chutkan. She handled the case of the Democrats mysterious IT man Imran Awan.
Like the white coat supremacy imposed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, black robe supremacy qua James Boasberg is the injustice inherent in the system. If there’s ever going to be any progress, as Dennis would say, both will have to go. Chief Justice Roberts doesn’t think so.
On Tuesday, Roberts said in a statement, “impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.” This is the same judge who approved Boasberg for the FISA court and greenlighted Obamacare, a boondoggle for the ages. The people can be forgiven for believing that Roberts is protecting Obama’s boy Boasberg and his favorite criminals. And if the people thought Roberts was okay with black robe supremacy it would be hard to blame them. So as Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.
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Well done, Lloyd. With what is known about Boasberg, it is time for DOJ to turn the screws on him until he squeals like the pig that he is.
As for Roberts, RAM's post below states it perfectly.
Someone have a word with Justice Amy. It's not good to follow your boss off a legal cliff.
And about that boss: Chief Justice Roberts has revealed his true colors to those who have been slow on the uptake. He can't credibly pose anymore as a shrewd tactician, as a protector of the legal system or of SCOTUS itself, or as a moderating force for the nation. Whether he's been bought and paid for, intimidated, converted to some strange political religion, or whatever, he's now unmasked.