...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
ns the White House says are
The Trump administration deported more than 200 Venezuelans it says were members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that has been linked to kidnapping, extortion and contract killings, to El Salvador over the weekend, even as a judge temporarily blocked it from using a wartime law to carry out the deportations.
Several legal experts interviewed by Rooters said the flights represented a direct challenge to the judicial branch's independence, although the White House denied that.
President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
has sought to push the boundaries of executive power since taking office in January, cutting spending authorized by Congress, dismantling agencies and firing thousands of federal workers.
On Monday, his Justice Department sought to remove the judge from the case.
The request to remove Judge James Boasberg came just before a hearing in his Washington courtroom began on the matter at 5 pm on Monday. Boasberg had instructed the government to provide details on the timing of the flights that transported the Venezuelans to El Salvador, including whether they took off after his order was issued.