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In today’s edition, we explore the history of the judge who has drawn anger by President Donald Trump and his allies in recent days. In addition, Andrea Mitchell explains what we should – and should not – we are waiting to learn JFK files.
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Meet the judge who draws Trump’s anger
By Ryan J. Reilly, Erik Ortiz, Lawrence Hurley and Allan Smith
The federal judge in contradiction with the White House on his application of immigration and now target of dismissal calls Pushed by President Donald Trump is a named bipartite whose career of three decades in Washington, DC, included cases that favored Trump.
James Boasberg, chief judge of the American district court in the Columbia district since 2023, has attracted Trump’s anger after temporarily blocked administration efforts to lead Migrant deportations by plane During the weekend, in a law rarely used in wartime.
In an interview that was broadcast on Tuesday on Fox News, Trump mentioned the dismissal of Boasberg, which he despised as “local judge”. Trump earlier the accusation of Boasberg in An article on social networks And described it as “Radical Left Lunatic, a disturbance maker and an agitator”.
Those who know Boasberg and his file insist that he is anything but.
In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Boasberg as an associate judge of the DC Superior Court. In 2011, President Barack Obama selected him to be a judge at the American district district court, and he was confirmed by the Senate during a 96-0 vote.
A Washington lawyer who frequently appeared before Boasberg, 62, called him a “extremely conscientious” judge who was “very at the bottom of the center” and is committed to doing things.
“He is known among the lawyers and his colleagues as a brilliant judge,” said the lawyer, speaking anonymously to avoid being considered a panding to the judge.
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What to know of the Trump presidency today
- The Trump administration and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine has accepted to move forward with a partial ceasefire With Russia that President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had discussed a day earlier. Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of air attacks against civilian targets and infrastructure overnight.
- A federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order Prohibit transgender people from enlisting or serving in the army.
- The American Institute of Peace, an independent non -profit organization established by the congress 40 years ago, asked a federal judge to block immediately The attempted closure of the government ministry forced the organization’s closure.
- The administration is Considering abandoning an order of NATO This is exclusively American since Eisenhower.
- Asset drawn two democratic commissioners to the Federal Trade Commission.
- The workers of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration this week experienced a kind of cervical boost as a federal government I tried to reintegrate probationary employees who had been dismissed.
What JFK files do – and not – reveal
By Andrea Mitchell
The researchers and the theorists of the conspiracy have spent the last 24 hours traveling unnate PDFs, including illegible handwritten notes from the FBI and the CIA, on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
In part partly invited by the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and his own affinity for the assassination of Kennedy, Trump signed a decree of his fourth day of power to disclose up to 80,000 pages of JFK files in the national archives, not corrected, A process that started Tuesday evening. During his first visit this week at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which Trump took over as president, he told a journalist: “You have a lot of reading.”
What has been delivered so far is far from the promise. In the pages that have been published, many of which involved testimonies from the Grand Jury and tax declarations, the information has always been reduced. None of the documents have been cataloged or annotated. And a large part of what the pages contained were already known in other sources.
The documents included surveillance reports on the travels of Lee Harvey Oswald to the Soviet Union and Finland, his months spent in Mexico City leading to the assassination and his anger against Kennedy when he was denied a visa in Cuba, where he wanted to get to unpack.
And there is a new fascinating material on a secret CIA operation in New York during the Cold War to open up to half a million letters and packages per month to the Soviet Union and the United States.
Will the publication of JFK files finally resolve more than 60 years of doubts about the conclusion of the Warren report that Oswald acted alone? It is unlikely.
Experts like Larry Sabato from the University of Virginia said that the CIA had retained other documents from the national archives which were not subject to the Liberation commanded by Trump. Other documents, including OSWALD FBI monitoring recordings, have been destroyed.
“I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald fired. I think that all the evidence in this direction. The question that we will never answer a fully answer is whether he has received encouragement or assistance in any way from another agent, another organization,” said Sabato. “These documents will not eliminate this possibility. If anything, it will provide fuel to fire. ”
JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, added Brained commentary on x In all of this, displaying a lively criticism of Trump’s policies and accusing him of “being obsessed with my grandfather – but not in his life or what he has achieved.”
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