By Jan Wolfe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday said he was resuming his long-stalled court proceeding to determine whether Trump administration officials willfully violated a court order by deporting hundreds of men to El Salvador in March.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said he would demand sworn testimony from administration officials to determine whether they defied his March court order to turn around aircraft that were removing the men from U.S. territory.

“It seems that a factual inquiry is in order, and the best way to proceed would appear to be bringing in witnesses and having them testify under oath,” Boasberg said during the hour-long status conference.

A three-judge panel of a federal appeals court halted the inquiry earlier this year. But a larger panel of

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