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The Trump administration on Friday scored two major legal wins in regard
to its deportation flights for illegal migrants, after a federal appeals
court temporarily paused U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt proceedings against the administration, and earlier in the day Boasberg declined to get involved in a different deportation case.
Boasberg ruled Wednesday that “probable cause exists” to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt after they allegedly
violated his orders by continuing the deportation flights under the
Alien Enemies Act.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has now halted those
proceedings in a 2-1 split in order to provide “sufficient opportunity”
for the court to weigh the administration's appeal, according to The
Hill.
The two judges who approved the halt were Trump appointees, while the
lone dissenter was appointed by former President Barack Obama.
“In the absence of an appealable order or any clear and indisputable
right to relief that would support mandamus, there is no ground for an administrative stay,” Judge Cornelia Pillard wrote in her dissent.
The order comes after Boasberg declined to get involved in another
deportation case, after attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) asked the judge to block any upcoming deportation flights over
the weekend.
Boasberg told the ACLU that he was "sympathetic" to their case, but
could not get involved because of a Supreme Court ruling earlier this
month.
"It is very concerning, but at this point I just don't think I have the
ability to grant relief to the plaintiffs," the judge said. "I just
don't really see how you're asking me to do anything different from what
the Supreme Court said I couldn't do."
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/federal-appeals-court-temporarily-halts-boasbergs-contempt-proceedings-over
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