A federal appeals court temporarily paused a lower court’s ruling that found probable cause to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt for not returning planes of illegal immigrants they deported in March.
On Friday, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit halted a ruling U.S. District Judge James Boasberg handed down on Wednesday that faulted the Trump administration for “willful disobedience of judicial orders” when it deported Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador last month. The temporary pause did not delve into the merits of Boasberg’s ruling.
“The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal or a writ of mandamus and should not be construed in any
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