D.C. Federal Judge James Boasberg suggested he may hold a member of the Trump administration in contempt over concerns they violated his order about three deportation flights last month.
The judge, James E. Boasberg, said he was likely to wait until next week to rule on whether the White House was in contempt of court for having ignored his order.
If you really believed everything you did that day was legal and would survive a court challenge, you wouldn’t have operated the way you did,” Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg told Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign on Thursday.
US District Judge James Boasberg said Thursday that he is looking at whether “probable cause” exists to hold Trump administration officials in contempt for violating his orders
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Judge Boasberg – who is notably overseeing two high-profile President Donald Trump lawsuits in Washington, D.C. – has come under scrutiny in recent weeks, including his own ties to the Supreme Court.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg Thursday pushed, once again, the Justice Department to explain its use of the Alien Enemies Act and provide key details and the timeline of the flights.
Nearly three weeks after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to remove more than 200 alleged migrant gang members to El Salvador with little-to-no due process, a federal
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A federal judge says the Trump administration may have “acted in bad faith” by trying to rush Venezuelan migrants out of the country before a court could step in to block their deportations to El Salvador.
A federal judge called government lawyers “intemperate and disrespectful” as he spanked the Trump administration for carrying out deportations of Venezuelan gang suspects even after the judge had ordered airplanes to be turned around.