The Trump legal world is simply bizarro. Judge Boasberg has asked for more definitive information regarding when immigration flights took off from Harlingen, Texas airport on March 15. The question is critical to whether the Trump administration deliberately violated Judge Boasberg’s orders. Judge Boasberg’s request came after a hearing on March 17 in which DOJ obfuscated that very question.

Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi has publicly stated that the Judge is seeking “immaterial” facts. See CBS news report here. “Immaterial” refers to factual matters which do not make a difference. AG Bondi is lecturing the Judge on what he thinks is important. This is the bizarro Trump legal world in which we find ourselves. The perceived needs of the Judge no longer carry any weight. It is simply bizarre that the concerns of the Judge who must decide the matter do not count. After 30 years of litigation, I have just never heard a responsible lawyer lecture a Judge on what he ought to consider important.

The Department of Justice essentially refused to provide the Judge’s requested information by the deadline on March 19. So, Judge Boasberg has given DOJ an additional day to provide that information in a sealed pleading. There is no apparent reason why the administration would refuse to provide that information. A sealed pleading is just that – sealed. No one would see it other than the Judge.

The Attorney General sounds more like a campaign spokesman than an AG. The proper recourse for disagreement with a judge is appeal. Campaign propaganda does not serve her purpose.