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The U.S. District Court of Circuit ruled 2-1 on Friday that U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg could not file a contempt lawsuit against the Trump administration.
The case involved the government’s alleged violation of emergency court orders and preventing the government from using 1798 laws, impending the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, the latest in a growing high-risk court conflict that lasted for months in various courts.
Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, two Trump appointing Majority Presidents, Support the Trump administration Friday, in a motion to stop Boasberg’s contempt was advanced.
Judge Nina Pillard, appointed by Obama, disagreed.
The 2-1 ruling almost certainly brought lawsuits to all courts in which the Democratic majority of benches were considered more favorable to the plaintiff or reviewed directly to the Supreme Court.
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“The district court here is in an extremely difficult position,” Casas said Friday.
“In the face of an emergency, it must digest and rule over novel and complex issues within a few hours. In this case, the court issued a written order containing some ambiguity.”
Casas noted that the appeals court ruling did not focus on the legality of Trump’s Foreign Enemy Act in March, when government officials invoked the immigration law of 1798 to send more than 250 Venezuelan nationals to Cecot, the highest security prison in El Salvador.
“We also cannot decide whether the government’s active implementation announced by the president deserves praise or criticism as a policy issue,” he added. “Perhaps a more careful judicial review should be guaranteed in the future. Maybe it already exists.”
“Anyway, it is not a crime that the government has clear and indisputable for the initial implementation of the announcement.”
President Donald Trump spoke on February 5, 2025 at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to the right. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
The ruling is after Boasberg initially found a reason until a few months later Despise the potential Procedures for this case.
This is because Boasberg also ordered an ongoing status update to the location and custody status of 252 CECOT class immigrants, as they were deported from El Salvador to Venezuela last month as part of the prisoner exchange between the United States and Venezuela.
It is unclear how many of these immigrants are pending asylum applications in the United States or have been granted a “withdrawal of office” order to prevent them from returning to their country of origin.
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The long-awaited ruling comes months after Boasberg ruled that the court issued a late-night temporary restraining order on March 15, finding it possible that there might be reason to conduct a criminal tempting lawsuit. The use of the Trump administration The Alien Enemy Act was to revoke certain immigrants to El Salvador.
Boasberg also ordered all immigrants to “return immediately” to the United States, which did not happen.
Despite orders, hundreds of immigrants were deported to the El Salvador prison Cecot in March, and they stayed until late last month when they were taken from the El Salvador prison to Venezuela as part of the prison exchange.
Boasbeg ruled in April that there were “probable reasons” in a criminal tempting lawsuit against the Trump administration’s failure to return planes to U.S. land, and said the court ruled that the Trump administration showed “intentional disregard” of his orders.
The appeals court approved a request from the Trump administration to rule on an emergency stay a few months ago, raising questions about why they did not act faster on the motion.
James Boasberg appointed chief judge on Monday, March 13, 2023 in the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty)
Nevertheless, the decision would almost certainly appeal to the full circuit court or to be heard directly in the Supreme Court.
The Trump administration has been quarantined from judges for months, and they have blocked the president’s enforcement of the order.
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Boasberg, in particular, has become one of Trump’s biggest public enemies. Last month, the court tried to get him out of overseeing the case and reassign it to another case – a long-term effort suggested by legal experts and former judges is unlikely to go further.
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