A U.S. appeals court overturned on Friday a lower court’s ruling that found probable cause to hold Trump administration officials in contempt over their handling of the deportations of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants under a centuries-old wartime law.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals also ordered Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to hold further proceedings to decide whether the migrants may still press claims that their deportations to a prison in El Salvador violated their due process rights. The migrants were released last month.

The decision ending Boasberg’s contempt probe was a win for Republican President Donald Trump and his allies, who have argued some judges are overstepping their authority and thwarting the executive branch’s broad power to conduct foreign p

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