Three weeks after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit took the "drastic" and "extraordinary" step of nuking a federal judge's criminal contempt probable cause finding against President Donald Trump's administration, attorneys for Alien Enemies Act (AEA) deportees are asking the whole appellate court to hear the case again and to repudiate the "dangerous" 2-1 decision led by Trump-appointed circuit judges .

The ACLU attorneys in J.G.G. et al. v. Trump state that an en banc rehearing is needed, not just because the case is "rife with open legal questions" but also because Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg should be permitted to take into account "significant whistleblower evidence" about what the DOJ knew of his initial March 15 restraining order blocking (AEA) deportation

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