Donald Trump’s administration could be held in criminal contempt after ignoring a federal judge’s court orders to turn planes around carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members summarily deported to a brutal Salvadoran prison under the president’s use of a wartime law.
In a ruling on Wednesday, Judge James Boasberg said the government’s failure to return those flights to the United States demonstrates “a willful disregard” that is “sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.”
