Judge Boasberg’s daughter works for pro-migrant nonprofit – founder opposes gang deportations

The leftist leanings of DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg’s daughter are under scrutiny as her father continues to thwart President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Katharine Boasberg, the daughter of Judge Boasberg, reportedly works for a “nonprofit that received millions in government funding, opposes the Laken Riley Act — and whose founder argued that the jurist ‘rightly’ blocked President Trump from swiftly deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members,” according to the New York Post.

Katharine is working at Partners in Justice doing “capacity building work in public defender offices across the nation.” The Post claims the organization’s website removed her biography page following Judge Boasberg’s appointment to the Alien Enemies Act case. However, thanks to the Wayback Machine, that page is still visible.

“Katharine joins PFJ after spending the last two years at the Center for Justice Innovation, where she worked as a case manager, assisting arraigned individuals who were mandated with Alternatives to Incarceration in the Brooklyn Criminal Court,” the page reads. “Katharine is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a major in Social Theory & Practice, concentrating on prison reform. She worked as an Investigator and Mitigation Specialist in public and federal defender offices during her summers at school, which solidified her goal of pursuing a career in the criminal justice space.”

Tax filings from the organization indicate they have received a whopping $3.3 million in government grants during 2023.

PFJ founder Emily Galvin-Almanza also publicly tweeted her approval of Judge Boasberg’s temporary order restraining Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport potential Venezuelan gang members. It didn’t take her long to lock down the comments as backlash came rolling in:

That was (rightly) quick

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Orders Halt on Deportations of Venezuelans Under Wartime Law https://t.co/Q8eMdP8bLa

— Emily Galvin-Almanza (@GalvinAlmanza) March 16, 2025

She also posted a video, emblazoned with the organization’s logo, of her complaining about the Laken Riley Act:

Weekly video: what happened to Laken Riley is a horrible tragedy. But when you work in policy, you come to notice that laws passed under the cover of a tragic name are often duplicative, cruel, or nakedly political. That rule holds here. pic.twitter.com/pMOLMSmo9Z

— Emily Galvin-Almanza (@GalvinAlmanza) February 20, 2025

“Weekly video: what happened to Laken Riley is a horrible tragedy. But when you work in policy, you come to notice that laws passed under the cover of a tragic name are often duplicative, cruel, or nakedly political. That rule holds here,” the caption reads.

Even Elon Musk finds the connection “concerning”:

Concerning https://t.co/PRmlzm2GZg

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2025

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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