Photo of Judge James E. Boasberg, courtesy of the NY TimesOur federal courts form the last guardrail against autocratic rule in the U.S. And the Trump administration hates that about them. Because the courts keep issuing orders stopping the administration from doing whatever it wants, legal experts have warned that a clash is inevitable. The fear is the White House would one day simply defy a direct court order and plunge us into a full blown constitutional crisis.Many don’t know this quite yet, but that day came yesterday.Despite a direct court order demanding that planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador be turned around mid-flight, and that no further flights bearing such migrants take place, the White House thumbed its nose at the judge. Two planes en route to El Salvador via Honduras failed to turn around, and a third plane bearing detained migrants took off, long
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