Chuck Darwin<p>Judge in Alien Enemies Act case to oversee case about Signal chat</p><p>The judge who the government has argued can't be trusted with sensitive information in the Alien Enemies Act case <br>-- has been assigned to a case about top government officials appearing to share sensitive information on the commercial messaging application Signal. </p><p>U.S. District Court Judge James <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boasberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boasberg</span></a> in the District of Columbia has been assigned to oversee the case of American Oversight against top officials involved in a Signal group chat about an attack in Yemen. <br>The lawsuits seeks to make sure the officials are not using the app to get around federal record-keeping requirements. <br>“Messages in the Signal chat about official government actions, including, but not limited to, national security deliberations, are <a href="https://c.im/tags/federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federal</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/records" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>records</span></a> and must be preserved in accordance with federal statutes, and agency directives, rules, and regulations,” the plaintiffs argue. <br>Tulsi <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gabbard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gabbard</span></a> is one of the defendants in the case, and used the suit as argument for why she couldn't answer some questions about the group chat in today's House hearing. <br>"As a result of that pending litigation, I'm limited in my ability to comment further" on the case, she testified. <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Boasberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boasberg</span></a> is overseeing a separate civil case in which alleged Venezuelan gang members have sued to stop from being deported under Trump's invocation of the rarely used Alien Enemies Act. </p><p>The administration has refused to answer some of the judge's questions about the initial March 15 deportations in the case and suggested in a filing it did not believe the court could be trusted with such sensitive information<br><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-ratcliffe-gabbard-election-ukraine-live-updates-rcna197446#rcrd75527" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/trump-adm</span><span class="invisible">inistration/live-blog/trump-administration-ratcliffe-gabbard-election-ukraine-live-updates-rcna197446#rcrd75527</span></a></p>