An anti-Trump activist sitting in his own federal courtroom has told the Trump administration to bring back to America about 100 suspected terror gang members.
They must be returned and given what he considers “due process” under the ruling from Judge James Boasberg, a longtime Trump detractor whose agenda against the president dates back to the judge’s involvement in the “Russiagate” conspiracy theory lies from nearly a decade ago.
Boasberg also was the judge who, when the Trump administration was deporting those identified as Tren de Aragua terror gang members to Venezuela earlier this year, ordered the jets carrying the offenders to return to the United States, without evidence of any consideration whether the jets had enough fuel to do that.
The administration confirmed that the jets already were in international airspace, so Boasberg’s jurisdiction had ended.
He also began contempt proceedings against members of the administration, and even tried to enforce his own rulings in the case after the U.S. Supreme Court had reversed them.
Boasberg now has continued his war against the administration’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to remove suspected Venezuelan gang members from the U.S., sending them to a prison in El Salvador.
He said in his opinion the Trump administration’s actions were illegal and were done in defiance of the court. Further, the deportation “deprived” the suspects of “due process protections.”
He said, in a long ruling, the administration must submit to him by Jan. 5 a plan to “provide due process” to the deportees.
He said that could happen by returning them to the U.S. for their cases to be heard or to “facilitate” hearings abroad.
The Department of Justice is expected to appeal his opinion, as Boasberg’s earlier decisions have been overturned before.
Boasberg claimed the U.S. continued to have “some level” of custody over the deportees even though they are in El Salvador.
He said that’s because there was an agreement between the U.S. and El Salvador to house them for at least a year.
He also insisted the administration has made public remarks suggesting the prison is an “extension” of U.S. facilities.
Boasberg also has been caught up in a scandal outlined by Fox News, which said Boasberg issued gag orders to prevent telephone companies from notifying members of Congress when Jack Smith, appointed to work on some of the Democrats’ lawfare cases against Trump, demanded their phone records.
Robert Conrad Jr., of the administrative office of the United States courts, then confirmed that Boasberg routinely blindly signed gag orders, including during that Arctic Frost investigation.
Conrad suggested Boasberg was naively unaware of the result of his own signatures.
Boasberg has refused to answer questions from Congress about his “track record of sabotaging President Trump’s America First agenda.”
A U.S. district judge is giving the Trump administration two weeks to either lay out a plan to return 137 illegal immigrants deported to El Salvador or grant them hearings.
Conservatives are demanding Judge James Boasberg’s impeachment, saying he overstepped by ordering due… pic.twitter.com/2NEi8LdX26
— Digital Gal (@DigitalGalX) December 23, 2025
Members of Congress already have begun discussing impeachment for Boasberg, although obtaining a conviction for the Obama-appointed judge in the Senate would be unlikely.
NEW: Jeb Boasberg’s unending sympathy for and defense of illegal Venezuelans tied to Tren de Aragua hits another fever pitch as he rules in favor of 137 illegals sent to El Salvador then back to Venezuela under the Alien Enemies Act.
Boasberg again claims their constitutional… pic.twitter.com/marUPv4lsA
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) December 22, 2025
Key to Boasberg’s claims about the illegal aliens is that he is imputing the constitutional rights of Americans to foreigners who violated America’s laws to enter the nation.
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to provide a hearing and due process for the 137 Venezuelans shuttled out of the country without due process in March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. https://t.co/wLB8bYX0ql pic.twitter.com/Lu37vakgYh
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 22, 2025
Boasberg orders return of Venezuelan deportees challenging Alien Enemies Act removalhttps://t.co/8Fd0YpC3de
— The Hill (@thehill) December 23, 2025
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Obama-appointed judge considered suspect in ‘serious breach of the rule of law’
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