A federal judge is holding a hearing on Thursday on the use of the Trump administration messaging application, after the senior national security officials used the application to discuss military attacks in Yemen as they were carried out earlier this month.
The American district judge James Boasberg, who also supervises the case involving the deportation of the administration of alleged members of migrant gangs under the Alien enemies law, was assigned to the case of the signal after the transparency group of the American Superight Government filed a federal demand that affirms the use of the signal viola the federal law that governs the preservation of the government’s records.
After President Donald Trump accused the morning of Thursday Boasberg on social networks of “grabbing the ‘Trump cases’ for himself”, the judge began the 4 PM et hearing when providing a detailed description of the Automated System of the DC District Court to assign cases, including the way in which each judge is assigned “electronic cards” to ensure that the cases are distributed quite a lot.
“This is how it works, and this is how all cases are being assigned in this course,” Judge Boasberg said.
Boasberg at the beginning of this month temporarily blocked the use of President Donald Trump of the Alien Enemies Law to deport more than 200 alleged gang members to El Salvador without due process, which led the White House to ask for its dismissal and publicly attack it as a “Democratic activist” and a “left left radical”.
The demand demand, which appoints the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, Secretary of State for Marco Rubio, and the national archives as defendants, ask for a federal judge to declare the use of an insufficient signal and order the drilling members to preserve the members of the drill Immediately, since the messages within the signals can be established in the delegate automatically, in the violation of the violation of the violation of the violation of the violation of the self -body. Record maintenance requirements.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth talks to the media when he reaches the joint base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu on March 24, 2025.
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The lawyers of the Department of Defense, before the Hearing, presented a statement that indicates that they have requested that a copy of the signal messages in question be sent to an official DOD account so that they can be preserved.
A second statement, of a lawyer from the Department of the Treasury, declared that the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, along with Besent’s chief of cabinet, has retained all the messages that begin with Mike Waltz’s messages on March 15.
The use of the chat of the signal group was revealed Monday by the chief editor of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, who said that he was unnoticed to the chat when the senior national security officials, including Hegseth and the national security advisor Mike Waltz, were discussing the military operation.
President Trump and other senior administration officials have minimized the use of the signal to discuss the attack, saying that the classified information was not shared in the chat, despite the exchange, including information on the weapons systems that are used and the time of strikes.
