Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the decision not to turn around deportation flights in March despite a judge ordering the government to do so, the Justice Department has said, naming several officials who advised her.

In a court filing late Tuesday, the department named “officials who made and advised on the decision not to recall the flights in transit," carrying migrants to a mega-prison in el Salvador, despite the order.

The judge who gave the order, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, has resumed his criminal contempt inquiry into the events.

Secretary Noem receiving legal advice before she "directed that the AEA [Alien Enemies Act] detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador," the new

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