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🗓️ 6 June 2025
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0:00.0 | When a senior federal judge uses Kafka and the trial novel as his template for holding the Trump |
0:08.1 | administration accountable, you know good things are going to follow. Judge Boasberg, chief judge |
0:13.0 | of the D.C. court, federal court, has just issued an order. You might think, well, he issues a lot of |
0:20.0 | orders against the Trump |
0:20.8 | administration and immigration, but this one's different because now he has certified a class |
0:27.2 | of those 250 men that were sent in the middle of the night from the U.S. to El Salvador without due |
0:33.4 | process rights, without notice, with nothing, no habeas corpus rights, and purposely sent in the |
0:39.9 | middle of the night by Donald Trump to avoid federal court supervision and jurisdiction, |
0:45.0 | they're likely coming back. And the Supreme Court's going to have to weigh in it all over again |
0:50.4 | because Judge Boseberg has just ruled that that class needs to be certified. He has found |
0:57.2 | that there is constructive custody by the United States in those prisons in El Salvador. |
1:04.1 | He's not falling for the ruse that he mentions in his decision, citing Kafka to start, he's not falling for the federal court, |
1:14.6 | for the Trump administration ruse that they're going to act like they don't have any relationship |
1:20.5 | with El Salvador in order to make sure these people stay away from federal jurisdiction. |
1:24.6 | He's not buying it. |
1:26.3 | And this new order is the next step on the road |
1:29.2 | to both contempt and another Supreme Court decision, likely against Donald Trump. I'm Michael Popak. |
1:34.3 | You're here on Midas Touch Network. Let's get to the breaking news. When I see Kafka, I get excited |
1:41.2 | because the trial is one of my favorite books. And the reason that the judge starts from first word of his order with Kafka is to show you the Kafka-esque world that these people, human beings, were placed in by the Trump administration. |
2:00.3 | Here's how he starts. Let me read to you from |
2:02.2 | the actual decision, which we will post on legal AF substack as well. One morning, Kafka's Joseph K |
2:09.8 | awakens to encounter two strange men outside his room. As he gets his bearings, he realizes |
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