A federal appeals court on Friday granted an emergency motion sought by the Justice Department to pause contempt hearings that were scheduled to begin next week over the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act . U.S. District Judge James Boasberg last Monday ordered top DOJ attorney Drew Ensign and former DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni to testify next week as part of an inquiry into why the administration continued to transport two planeloads of migrants to the notorious CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, despite his verbal order to turn the planes around. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a 2-1 ruling on Friday, temporarily blocked the contempt inquiry, according to a court filing. In its emergency motion, the DOJ said the hearings

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