âDoozyâ: Expert 'gobsmacked' as Trump's DOJ tells judge âwe're not telling you the facts'
MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann admitted to being â??gobsmackedâ? by the courtroom battle that unfolded Monday after the Trump administration failed to comply with a federal judgeâ??s deportation order to return a plane of migrants to the United States.At the contentious hearing Monday afternoon, U....
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MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann admitted to being “gobsmacked” by the courtroom battle that unfolded Monday after the Trump administration failed to comply with a federal judge’s deportation order to return a plane of migrants to the United States.
At the contentious hearing Monday afternoon, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg delivered a sharp rebuke of the administration’s move over the weekend and demanded answers from government attorneys – which they refused to provide, according to Weissmann.
“So this is a doozy,” Weissmann told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace. “The judge wanted to have a factual hearing, he said, ‘I’m not going to make a ruling today on whether you're in contempt. I want to understand the facts better.’ That usually means that the court, that the government, knowing that they're there, has to answer.”
Weissmann said the government attorneys defending the Trump administration responded by saying, "'We are not telling you the facts.'" That, the former federal prosecutor said, prompted the judge to launch into a “whole series of questions about what happened? When did the planes take off? When did they land? Who was on the planes? How many people? All the normal things you'd want to know… no answer.”
'"We are not telling you, judge,'" the government's attorneys responded, according to Weissmann.
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Weissmann continued to unpack the explosive hearing and went on to say Boasberg “seemed incredulous” at the government’s argument that the administration was not required to comply with an oral order issued from the bench directing the planes back.
“They said that was an oral order, and we viewed that as superseded by the written order, so we didn't have to comply with it,” Weissmann added.
The MSNBC legal analyst concluded that “the judge had some shade at the end" for the Trump administration.
“He said, “This is what I need you to do by tomorrow at noon,' and he says, ‘I’m putting that in writing because apparently my oral orders to you don't carry a lot of weight.’”
Weissmann's analysis prompted Wallace to conclude: “You seemed pretty gobsmacked, which is saying something.”
“Yes,” he admitted.
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