U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg said Wednesday he is reopening a contempt inquiry after a seven-month pause to determine whether Trump administration officials authorized deportation flights to land in El Salvador in March even after he ordered them to turn the planes around.
Boasberg moved to restart the proceedings after the full D.C. Circuit Court on Friday declined to rehear the Trump administration’s appeal, leaving in place a panel decision that vacated his earlier “probable-cause” contempt finding.
With that order no longer operative, Boasberg said he would re-examine the matter under a fresh legal framework.
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