Judge Boasberg is Reeling After Appeals Court 'Benchslaps' His Insane Order

“This long-running saga never should have begun; should not have continued at all after this Court’s last intervention..."

In an explosive move, a federal appeals court has stepped in to freeze a district judge’s attempt to pursue contempt proceedings against the Trump administration.

The Appeals Court’s order was terse but extraordinary, signaling that the real question may not be whether officials defied a court order, but whether the judge ever had the authority to investigate ‘indirect contempt’ proceedings in the first place.

Judge Jeb Boasberg, no fan of the Trump administration — or judicial ethics — has been knee-deep in D.C. swamp water for decades. But his latest ruling appears to have gone much too far — and he just got “benchslapped” for it.