Judge James Boasberg
D.C. Circuit U.S. District Court
James Emanuel Boasberg was born in February 1963 in San Francisco, California. He earned an undergraduate degree from Yale University, a Master of Studies from Oxford University, and received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He clerked at the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before entering into private practice, first in San Francisco and then in the District of Columbia.
He joined the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and spent four years as a prosecutor specializing in homicides. He became an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, serving in both the civil and criminal divisions and the domestic violence branch. He was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by President Barack Obama, confirmed by the Senate, and received his commission in March 2011.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Boasberg to also serve on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a term that began in May 2014.
He is married to Elizabeth Leslie Manson.
In the News…
District Court Judge James Boasberg has kept a restraining order in place to halt deportations of illegal alien Venezuelans by President Trump’s administration under the Alien Enemies Act.
President Trump has designated the Tren de Aragua a criminal gang that has conducted an “invasion or predatory incursion against the nation.
Judge Boasberg wrote, “The President’s unprecedented use of the Act outside of the typical wartime context… implicates a host of complicated legal issues” such as whether a criminal group like Tren de Aragua constitutes a “foreign nation or government.”
The judge determined that the plaintiffs, five detainees of the Department of Homeland Security, are entitled to the due process of individual hearings. He wrote, “Because the named Plaintiffs dispute that they are members of Tren de Aragua, they may not be deported until a court has been able to decide the merits of their challenge.”
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The Honorable James Boasberg
U.S. District Court
E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse
333 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001
