Boasberg cucked out for now, he made no ruling during the hearing but rather, as expected, used it as an opportunity to chastise the Trump Administration in general and Trump himself in particular. But he did renew his threats that if Trump did indeed give permission to not turn the planes around he will "face the full consequences of ignoring a legal lawful court order".
Some quotes
"I agree the policy ramifications of this are incredibly troublesome and problematic and concerning, and I agree it's an unprecedented and expanded use of an act that has been used ... in the War of 1812, World War I and World War II, when there was no question there was a declaration of war and who the enemy was," Boasberg said at Friday's hearing.
The judge noted that the Trump administration's arguments about the extent of the president's powers are "awfully frightening" and a "long way from" the intent of the law.
He also vowed to hold the Trump administration accountable, if necessary, if they violated his court order last weekend blocking the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport the Venezuelan migrants.
"The government's not being terribly cooperative at this point, but I will get to the bottom of whether they violated my word and who ordered this and what's the consequence," he said.
TLDR: The judge used this chance to try to score some political points and did nothing but bitch, gripe and grandstand from the bench.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-retur...on-venezuelan-migrants-due/story?id=120024244
EDIT 2: Trump's DoJ has issued a mandamus to the DC appeals court this afternoon to stop this judges case. It won't work of course because it's the DC Appeals Court but then they can go to SCOTUS and get a final answer one way or the other.
EDIT: the law faggot put out a video on the hearing for those who want more details