Reacting to a report that the Department of Justice is now pointing the finger at Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as the culprit in a fight over ignoring a judge’s order, MS NOW host Joe Scarborough claimed all involved will end up paying a price.
In a DOJ response late Tuesday, to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s insistence that the administration specify the officials who ignored his ruling that deportees could not be flown out of the country to a notorious prison in El Salvador, the judge was directed to Noem.
According to a report from Politico, “The assertion that it was Noem who made the decision, despite a frantic effort by lawyers for the men — backed by Boasberg — to halt the transfer, adds a wrinkle to the murky timeline surrounding the deportation effort.”
On “Morning Joe,“ Scarborough remarked that Boasberg, who is well respected all the way up to the Supreme Court, is not a judge to mess with and there will be a reckoning for past and present DOJ officials.
In particular, he singles out former DOJ official Emil Bove and current Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“I hope there are people around Todd Blanche and Mr. Bove, Judge Bove, that can explain to them what happened to people in the first Trump administration that thought they were above the law, that thought they could go into courts and do whatever they wanted to do,” the MS NOW host asserted. “They ended up being disbarred or having, you know, in the case of, I believe, Jenna Ellis, having their law degrees and practices suspended for several years. I mean, this doesn’t end well.”
“The problem is that they’re dealing with a judge, Judge Boasberg, who’s not some like, 1960’s Ninth Circuit hippie,” he added to the amusement of his panel. “He is one of the most respected conservative jurists in Washington, D.C. There are people on the Supreme Court who know him extraordinarily well, long before Donald Trump ever thought about running for the Republican nomination in 2015.”
He warned, “So when you read news stories that Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, both according to news reports, told Kristi Noem to ignore a judge’s orders. And Todd, I mean, Emil Bove, actually saying to tell the court to ‘f off,’ the consequences for these two men in the long run just aren’t good.”
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