Judge Overseeing Trump Deportation Case Now Assigned Signal Chat Lawsuit

Judge Boasberg's New Case

• 📌 US District Judge James Boasberg, previously criticized by President Trump for blocking deportation flights, has been assigned a new high-profile case.
• 💡 This new lawsuit stems from the Signal group chat scandal and involves a left-leaning watchdog group suing the Trump administration.
• 🎯 The lawsuit, American Oversight versus Hegathth, claims a violation of the Federal Records Act due to self-destructing messages used for official conversations not on classified servers.

Deportation Flights Legal Battle

• ⚖️ Judge Boasberg has been pushing back against the Trump administration's use of a wartime act for deporting Venezuelan migrants.
• ⚠️ The DOJ argues that removals were legal and safeguarded Americans against foreign terrorist organization members.
• 🧐 The ACLU has until Friday to counter the government's argument, with potential options for the judge including motioning to find the government in contempt of his order.
• ❓ Judge Boasberg has pledged to get to the bottom of missing details regarding the deportation flights, such as who was on them and the timeline of events.

Tufts Grad Student Detention

• 🎓 A Tufts University grad student, here on an international student visa, has been taken into custody by ICE.
• 🗣️ The student had signed an op-ed calling for the university to acknowledge a genocide in Gaza and was part of an online group speaking out against it.
• 🚫 A judge blocked her removal from Massachusetts, but she remains detained, with her attorney unsure of her exact location.
• ⚖️ This case mirrors others where judges have blocked deportations of students and fellows, yet they are not released from custody, requiring lawyers to fight for details on their whereabouts.