'Highly concerning': Expert details ways Trump DOJ policy is 'the real problem'
President Donald Trump and some of his close allies, including billionaire Tesla/SpaceX/X.com leader Elon Musk, are calling for the impeachment of federal judges who are blocking his executive orders. And one of their main targets is U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, an appointee of former President Barack Obama who temporarily blocked the Trump Administration's deportations of Venezuelan nationals for alleged associations with the violent Tren de Aragua gang.
Critics of the deportations are arguing that the nationals were being deported to El Salvador without due process, and that some of them may have been wrongly accused of associating with Tren de Aragua.
One of those critics is attorney Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward.
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During a Friday morning, March 21 appearance on MSNBC, Perryman laid out some civil liberties concerns that the deportations are raising. Perryman came on after former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance, who told MSNBC's Ana Cabrera that Trump and his allies are exercising "minimal compliance with" Boasberg's order.
Perryman brought up the due process concerns, telling Cabrera, "The government continues to believe that it's above the law and to operate in secrecy in this case. So we are continuing…. to obtain information. But what we haven't seen, of course, is anything — and this is, I think, what every American in this country should be concerned about — the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is an attempt to summarily remove people from this country without any process at all. And so, we have been submitting information from concerned family members who believe that people may have been removed from this country who are not actually members of. gangs or had no basis for being removed, but have been removed from the country without any process at all."
The Democracy Forward CEO added, "That is the real problem here. And then, the doubly concerning problem, and something that should concern every American, is the way in which the government has been operating in this case, suggesting at times that there is a question as to whether it has to follow a district court order from a federal judge. And so, we believe this is a highly concerning situation."
Perryman argued that the Trump Administration is not operating "in good faith."
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Perryman told Cabrera, "We will be holding the government accountable to the law as is required in this case…. There is a lot of highly politicized rhetoric coming out of the White House. But this is a president that has invoked an act that has only been invoked three times in the nation's history."
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