Judge James Boasberg has come under fire recently for his attempt to block President Trump’s deportation of dangerous gang members. Now, however, it has been revealed that Boasberg attended a conference featuring anti-Trump speakers and sponsors mere months before issuing his controversial ruling.

From Just the News. A Republican member of Congress and a Harvard professor are calling for a ban on special interest judicial junkets following Just the News revealing that Judge James Boasberg attended a privately-funded conference with an anti-Trump organization last year.

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Just the News reported Sunday night that, months before he blocked President Donald Trump’s deportations of illegal alien gang members, Boasberg attended a privately-funded legal conference in Idaho that featured sponsors and speakers who have expressed clear anti-Trump sentiments — particularly on immigration and January 6th — and a theme that echoed the Democrat Party’s 2024 stated mission of “saving democracy.” Federal judicial ethics rules currently allow such junkets.

Congressman Andy Biggs, R-Az., said during a Monday interview on “Just the News, No Noise“ with John Solomon and Amanda Head that banning these privately-funded judicial junkets is “something that needs to happen” and said he would be including that ban in upcoming legislation, arguing it is time to say, “Look, no go. No more of that.”

“This is a problem, isn’t it? I mean, you really want to have your judges kind of stay aloof, if possible, from some of the top issues. … A responsible judge is going to recuse themselves, and they’re going to say, ‘Look, I can’t really get there because I have had, I’ve got unique knowledge. I’ve been engaged in things.’ In fact, you could even say it has the appearance of impropriety and then step away from it. But this judge doesn’t seem to have that capacity in him,” Biggs, the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, said of Boasberg on Monday …

Appearance of a conflict of interest

The Rodel Institute conference, details of which were contained in a “Privately Funded Seminar Disclosure Report” they are required to file, was part of the institute’s Judicial Fellowship and each of the judges in attendance — including Boasberg — was a first-year fellow. Rodel itself is funded by the same leftwing foundations who often sponsor anti-Trump programs and publications. The group is led by an anti-Trump critic, and at least one of the speakers at the conference is a law professor who has repeatedly condemned Trump’s immigration policies.

Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz also said on the John Solomon Reports podcast on Monday that Boasberg’s attendance at the Rodel Institute conference was “a creation of, obviously, a conflict of interest, at least in appearance” and that “when you have cases like this, you have to be absolutely above reproach.”

Dershowitz said that “it would be better to have a blanket rule” banning these paid junkets, “but a lot of judges would get very upset, because they really live for the summer.”

“I think it begins and ends with Congress,” Dershowitz said of banning privately-funded judicial trips. …

Boasberg attended the conference last summer in ritzy Sun Valley, where two of the four Rodel Institution sessions were titled “Role of Judges in a Democracy” and the “State of Democracy.”

Trump shared the article by Just the News early Monday morning, blasting Boasberg and comparing him to Judge Juan Merchan, who had presided over Trump’s hush money case in New York.

“This Judge is almost as conflicted (actually, not even close!) as the Judge whose daughter made Millions of Dollars representing Biden/Harris against me, while her father presided over a Fake Case against me, and refused to RECUSE himself,” Trump said on Truth Social. …

Chief Justice Roberts says appellate process is the answer

Boasberg, nominated to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by then-President Barack Obama in 2011, is currently engaged in an all-out legal battle with the Trump Justice Department.

Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in a proclamation this month against Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal gang which Trump said “is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States.”

The Trump administration sent three planes carrying more than 200 Venezuelan illegal immigrants to El Salvador, and Boasberg issued an order temporarily blocking the administration from using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to carry out deportations. The judge also attempted unsuccessfully to stop multiple U.S. deportation flights from leaving the country.

“This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President… This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!” Trump said on Truth Social earlier this month. …

Just hours later, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts released a statement to some media outlets rebuking Trump.

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.” …

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(Excerpt from Just the News)