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The White House is trying to have it all possible in a dispute with high issues on its rapid deportation of hundreds of immigrants in Salvador. It is unlikely that it ends in a help, which could very well have been the point throughout.
The Briefing of the White House on Monday, where the press secretary Karoline Leavitt had an uninviable task to say simultaneously that the administration was conforming to the orders of a judge while arguing that the oral directives of the same judge were not at all binding, “I do not care what the judges think”.
The rhetorical cervical boost seemed to bear only one common point: the elasticity of the facts and the justifications.
This Kafkaesque saga started late Friday when President Donald Trump discreetly signed an order prevailing by a war authority to carry out mass deportations. According to the White House, 137 alleged members of Gangs in Venezuela were sent to Salvador, where the military and the police – and the videographers greeted them on the way to a mega -prison which was a major concern for human rights defenders. 124 other people were also shipped to San Salvador aerodrome under different federal laws.
On Saturday, after the flight of the speech of the plan, the American district judge James Boasberg tried to prevent Trump from deporting immigrants without audiences and told the administration to overthrow aircraft carrying 261 migrants. When Boasberg told administration lawyers, planes were already outside the American airspace and, according to some in the thinking of the administration, therefore out of reach of the American courts.
On Sunday, the account fell into the predictable scheme of the Trump allies arguing the legal advantages of exceptional executive powers which are not controlled and the self-penetration of the judges’ authorities. In the background, the best diplomat in the country, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, republished a message on the social networks of President Salvadoran Nayib Bukele on the attempts of the Court to intervene by obeying Raw Schadenfreude: “Oopsy … Too late” “
Trump lawyers cite a law of 1798 as a basis for the start of migrants in the country without a day before the court, although in practice the law has not been used since the Second World War. Legal experts are divided on the question of whether this is within the limits, but rather than keeping the fight in the courts, the Trump friends seem more than eager to launch multiple explanations in ether to see what seems to earn the most traction.
During the public press briefing on Monday, Leavitt seemed to argue on several reality plains. All of them can have merits, but paved together, they fell as a desperate attempt to find the justification.
“This administration acted within the limits of the law,” said Leavitt. Left not said: law arbitrator Boasberg said these migrants should stay in the United States.
“All the planes subject to the written order of this judge left us the ground,” said Leavitt, suggesting that the planes traveling internationally were beyond the scope of the judge. Left not said: this argument cannot fly and, whatever, a judge had pointed out that these planes should have remained anchored.
“There are in fact questions about the question of whether a verbal order has the same weight … as a written order, and our lawyers are determined to ask and answer these questions in court,” said Leavitt. Left not said: lawyers who ignore a judge rarely do well.
The chronology is a dramatic illustration of the dynamics of the playing state around all of this.
Boasberg, at 5 p.m. on Saturday, asked at the start of the deportations. The court has entered a recess so that government lawyers can discover it. The plane took off at 5.45 p.m. at 6:52 p.m., according to an essential calendar of the security weekend, Boasberg ordered the American track planes. Migrants landed at 8:02 p.m.
During all this time, Trump’s aids and allies savor this fight. During the weekend, Trump’s White House was cheeky enough to boast about how this has exceeded a judge, even with his best hand on borders that openly boosting the way the courts cannot stop the administration.
“We don’t stop,” Tsar Border Tom Homan told Fox News. “I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the left thinks. We come.
All this left Washington to wonder if the Trump administration started all Friday evening with the express engineering objective a confrontation in justice which could ultimately Strengthen the power of the executive branch in immigration policy.
It is a game book The Americans can see several times from this white house in the coming years: charge too quickly for the courts to follow and believe that the lawyers and the allies of the administration will keep the debate as muddy – and as disjoint – as possible.
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