WASHINGTON (AP) – The Ministry of Justice filed a complaint of misconduct on Monday against the federal court who collided with President Donald Trump's government about deportations to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
Escalating that the government's conflict with the American district judge James E. Boasberg, Attorney General Pam Bondi, said on social media that she directed the submission of the complaint to Boasberg “for making incorrect public comments about Donald Trump and his administration.”
The complaint stems from comments that Boasberg would have made in March to supreme judge John Roberts and other federal judges who say that the government would cause a constitutional crisis by ignoring the statements of the federal court, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Associated Press.
The comments “have undermined the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary,” says the complaint, adding that the administration “has always complied with all judicial orders”. Boasberg is one of the various judges who have wondered whether the administration has complied with their orders.
The meeting took place days before Boasberg released an order blocking flights that Trump carried out by calling out the authorities of wartime from an 18th -century law.
The verbal order of the judge to turn aircraft on their way to El Salvador was ignored. Since then, Boasberg has found a likely cause that the administration of the court has committed.
The comments were probably made during a meeting of the judicial conference, the administrative body of the federal judiciary. The comments were first reported by the conservative website The Federalist, who said it obtained a memo that the meeting summarizes.
Boasberg, the main judge in the court in the capital of the nation, is a member of the judicial conference. The meetings are not public.
The complaint calls for an investigation, re -assigning the deportation case to another court, while the investigation is underway and sanctions, including the possible recommendation of deposition, if the investigation substantiates the allegations.
Trump himself has already called for Boasberg's accusation, which in turn gave rise to a rare response from Roberts who rejects the call.
The complaint was submitted to Judge Sri Srinivasan, the main judge of the US Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit.
More than 250 Venezuelans who were deported to a Salvadoran Mega Prison known as the Terrorism Connection Center or Cecot, were sent home earlier this month to Venezuela in a deal that also liberated 10 American citizens and permanent inhabitants who had been held by Venezuela.
But the lawsuit about the deportations and the answer from the administration to the Basberg order remains in his court.
