The Latest Breaking News from James Boasberg

Americans view the Signal leak in at least as bad a light as Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State

As the 19th-century French political philosopher, Alexis de Tocqueville, memorably observed, Americans have a tendency to fight their political battles in court. Barely two months into his presidency, Donald Trump is demonstrating increasing frustration as trade unions, civil rights organisations and states attorneys general challenge the implementation of his policies…

A US appeals court on Wednesday denied a bid by the Trump administration to lift a lower court order barring summary deportations of Venezuelan migrants using an obscure wartime law.

Judge James Boasberg is temporarily stopping the administration from ejecting immigrants under the centuries-old wartime law

The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants being deported from the United States

Little is known about the legal status of Venezuelan migrants who were taken to El Salvador's mega-prison system. That may soon change.

Judge James Boasberg, on the receiving end of attacks by the Trump administration over his opposition to the use of the Alien Enemies Act to conduct swift deportations, has been assigned to a signalgate lawsuit

Judge Boasberg ruled the migrants are entitled to due process in determing whether they really are "alien enemies" covered by the Act.

The move is an escalation of the White House's attempt to claim an unchallengeable and unreviewable amount of power.