U.S. District Judge James Boasberg will move forward with contempt proceedings over allegations that Trump administration officials violated his order to return alleged Venezuelan gang members who were on deportation flights to El Salvador earlier this year.

Boasberg, who has become an antagonist of the administration with his various rulings against it, ordered in March that the Trump administration return any person deported using the Alien Enemies Act, but the Justice Department acknowledged that two planes full of suspected Tren de Aragua members, which had already taken off, continued to a Salvadoran prison despite the verbal order from the judge. The DOJ argued that the planes had left U.S. airspace and were therefore beyond the court’s jurisdiction by the time the order cam

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