After a federal judge in April found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for ignoring an order to turn Alien Enemies Act (AEA) deportation flights around, two circuit judges appointed by President Donald Trump took the rare step Friday of granting the "extraordinary remedy" of a writ of mandamus nuking that threat.

U.S. Circuit Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao took Chief U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia James Boasberg to the proverbial woodshed, over the lone dissent of their colleague U.S. Circuit Judge Nina Pillard, a Barack Obama appointee.

Boasberg, an Obama appointee also appointed by George W. Bush to the D.C. Superior Court, was recently the subject of an ethics complaint signed by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's chief of staff

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