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Judge poised to order criminal trial of Todd Blanche: 'More than sufficient' evidence
The Rule They Broke Was Not SubtleThe Center of PowerThis is not a mystery about paperwork or mixed signals. According to the record described by Marty Lederman, senior Justice Department officials including acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Emil Bove told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that a judge’s order did not mean what the judge had just said in open court. Two deportation flights then left anyway, carrying Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador’s CECOT prison.That is the political fact pattern that matters: the people with legal authority inside the executive branch chose…
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