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By Michael Hernandez. 3-29-25
CALIRED NEWS–Judge James Boasberg emerged early in his opposition of President Donald J. Trump’s deportation policies despite being conflicted himself (by his wife’s nonprofit abortion clinic and his daughter’s NonGovernmental Organization) but he is only one of multiple judges that have used nationwide “injunctions” blocking President Trump’s agenda.
(Editor’s Note: Judge James Boasberg fighting Trump over El Salvador deportations of violent criminals was assigned to the lawsuit over the Signal chat leak of March 11-15 involving Pentagon plans concerning the Houthis in Yemen.)
Judges Block Trump Agenda
Judges have ruled the following in just this past week:
- March 25: A trio of California federal judges declared President Trump must welcome roughly 40,000 refugees approved by President Job Biden’s deputies.
Biden’s deputies imported 197,000 refugees by October 2024. President Trump suspended the refugees program Jan. 20 in Executive Order 14163.
(March 26: Breitbart By Neil Munro)
- March 25: In Seattle (Washington) another federal judge ordered the Trump administration to keep paying the quasi-government agencies that settle the refugees in Americans’ crowded housing, schools, and workplaces. The Seattle judge declared that Trump did not properly explain his cut-off of funding to the refugee agencies.
(March 26: Breitbart By Neil Munro)
- March 26: Washington, D.C-based U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee, denies the Trump administration’s effort to ban transgender people from the military.
(Fox News By Greg Wehner, Jake Gibson)
- March 26: San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court (2-1 vote) tells President Trump to reinstate thousands of fired probationary employees working for the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, and the Treasury Department.
(March 27: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft)
- March 26: Washington, D.C. Appeals Court (2-1) vote upheld the ability of Judge James Boasberg to temporarily “stay” or block deportation of Venezuelan criminal migrants via the Alien Enemies Act and that the case should remain in Boasberg’s D.C. court, not a Texas court. The ruling was made by Judge Patricia Millett and Judge Karen Henderson. The lone dissent was given by Judge Justin Walker who wanted the case reviewed in a Texas court. The Alien Enemies Act was enacted in 1798.
(March 27: Breitbart By Neil Munro)
- March 28: Washington D.C. Judge James Boasberg extended a restraining order against the Alien Enemies Act, 1798 wartime immigration law the Trump administration enacted to deport Venezuelan nationals who are Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members in the U.S. illegally.
(Fox News By Alexandra Koch, Bill Mears, Shannon Bream, David Spunt and Gateway Pundit By Cristina Laila)
- March 28: Washington D.C. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson blocked the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010. The Acting CFPB Director is Russ Vought.
(RedState By Ward Clark)
- March 29: New York Judge James Paul Oetken, the first openly gay man to be confirmed as a federal judge in 2011, granted a temporary restraining order blocking the implementation of President Trump’s March 14 executive order titled “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy” and halting Kari Lake’s reform of the US Agency for Global Media (UAGM) and Voice of America (VOA).
(Gateway Pundit By Jordan Conradson)
President Trump Fights Back
- March 28: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (Richmond, Virginia) cleared the way for Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to resume their efforts to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Earlier in the month, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, a Maryland-based appointee of President Barack Obama ruled that Musk and his DOGE allies were likely exercising an unconstitutional amount of power because Musk has not been formally appointed to a Senate-confirmed position. However, all three judges on the 4th Circuit agreed that Chuang’s block should be lifted. The three circuit court judges are: Judge Marvin Quattlebaum, a Trump appointee, Judge Paul Niemery, a President George H.W. Bush appointee and Judge Roger Gregory, a President Bill Clinton appointee.
(Politico: Hassan Ali Kanu and Kyle Cheney and RedState: Susie Moore)
- March 29: Trump administration lawsuit filed in Waco, Texas with Trump appointee Judge Alan D. Albright against federal public-sector unions by the Department of Defense, Agriculture, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Veterans Affairs, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Social Security Administration. The lawsuit was in response to President Trump’s Executive Order on Exclusions From Federal Labor-Management Relations programs which expanded the number of agencies granted an exception to the right to unionize under Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.
(RedState by streiff)
Editor’s Note: To see earlier stories in this judicial series go to: https://www.citizensjournal.net/what-is-lawfare-how-is-it-used-against-president-trump-part-ii/
Michael Hernandez, is co-founder of the Citizens Journal–Ventura County’s online news service and writes for CitizensJournal.net He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor, writer of “CaliRed News” on Substack.com, and edits the weekly “Stories Speak Volumes” and monthly “Election 2025 Countdown.” Mr Hernandez mentors citizen journalists/podcasters and can be contacted at [email protected].
