Julie Kelly

Well, Steve, you and I have talked about this for almost a year.

I mean, this is a full circle moment.

From March 15th of 2025, the first lawsuit lands on Jeff Osberg's desk, chief judge of the D.C.

District Court.

This is the ACLU filing the first lawsuit to prohibit the president's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.

And that ordered the immediate deportation of illegal Venezuelans who are tied to Tren de Aragua, which has been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the administration.

That night, as planes had already left U.S.

airspace, two planes carrying AEA subjects,

Jeb Bosberg gives what he called an oral command to return those two planes carrying the illegal Venezuelans, that they had not been offered their due process rights and or habeas petitions.

So, of course, planes were already out of U.S.

airspace, as we've discussed.

They were sent to Seacott in El Salvador.

And then eventually released into, uh, Venezuela, Jeb Bosberg now has spent almost an entire year trying not only to get these illegal Venezuelans back to the United States, but to use that oral order.

He calls it as the basis of contempt findings against the Trump administration that because they did not return those planes, they were in contempt of court.

So what did he do today, Steve?

Here we are almost a year later.

He finally issues an order demanding that not just the DOJ return the men who have now also left Venezuela, they're a third-party country, that's what he called them, arrange for remote habeas hearings for the people who are still in Venezuela, but the men who are flown back to the United States who want to

advance their habeas claims.

That means get out of detention or continue to oppose their designation as an AEA subject.

Jeb Bosberg ordered the government to pay for these men to be flown back to the United States, meaning, of course, you and me and everyone else pays for their transport back here.