U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young. Credit: Civil Jury Project YouTube screenshot
A so-called federal judge was caught off guard when an administration attorney dropped a devastating truth bomb that put all of his whining over Trump to shame.
As Politico reported, a federal judge presiding over a lawsuit in Boston regarding the deportation of foreign, pro-Hamas activists went off on Trump and his cabinet on Thursday for orchestrating an “unconstitutional conspiracy” to pick off migrants.
The affected activists include Columbia University’s Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Madhawi, Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk, and Georgetown University academic Badar Khan Suri. These students have all issued hateful anti-American and ant-Semitic remarks, leaving other students uncomfortable.
Despite the activists having no constitutional right to reside in America, U.S. District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, decided to bash Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“There was no policy here,” said the 85-year-old Young, who has been on the bench for 40 years. “What happened here is an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people.”
“I find it breathtaking that I have been compelled on the evidence to find the conduct of such high-level officers of our government — cabinet secretaries — conspired to infringe the First Amendment rights of people with such rights here in the United States,” he added. “These cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.”
But Young was not done. He went on to call Trump an ‘authoritarian” and compared his efforts to deport illegal aliens to slavery.
From Politico:
Young used extraordinarily stark language during the hearing, describing Trump as an “authoritarian” while insisting that he was choosing the term carefully, rather than simply using a “pejorative.” The judge also compared the Trump administration’s broader mass-deportation campaign to historic efforts to return formerly enslaved people to their owners under the Fugitive Slave Act, noting an infamous episode in Boston history when a U.S. marshal was killed near Young’s courthouse as he guarded a man named Anthony Burns who escaped slavery in Virginia.
The judge has been tangling with Trump and the administration in a series of high-profile lawsuits that have landed in his Boston courthouse since last year. He has similarly accused the administration of discriminatory policies against minorities and LGBTQ Americans.
Still, Young said that the case of targeted deportations against activists is by far the most important in his lengthy career.
As Politico notes, Young previously ruled against the administration’s policy in September following a two-week trial. Thursday’s hearing was held to work out a “remedy” for the violations.
The Justice Department, though, later stunned Young on Thursday by noting he has no power to enforce his ruling that the administration’s targeted deportations were unconstitutional.
“All issues related to the initiation of removal proceedings must be channeled into immigration court,” DOJ attorney Paul Stone said. “There isn’t any remedy that the court can offer.”
“You’re telling me there is no remedy?” a shocked Young fired back.
“That’s what the statutes require,” Stone said.
Stone is correct. The Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals previously found that Congress has forbidden district court judges like Young from issuing orders that impact deportation proceedings.
Poltico notes, however, that Young may decide to legislate from the bench anyway and hamstring Trump’s constitutional authority again on immigration enforcement.
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