Judge finds probable cause to hold Trump administration in criminal contempt

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Washington — A national justice said Wednesday that probable origin exists to find the Trump medication successful transgression contempt implicit its defiance of an bid to crook astir planes carrying Venezuelan migrants that was bound for El Salvador.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote successful a 46-page decision that the government's actions connected March 15 "demonstrate a willful disregard" for his bid barring the authorities from transferring definite migrants into Salvadoran custody nether the wartime Alien Enemies Act.

Those actions, helium wrote, are "sufficient for the tribunal to reason that probable origin exists to find the authorities successful transgression contempt. The Court does not scope specified decision lightly oregon hastily; indeed, it has fixed Defendants ample accidental to rectify oregon explicate their actions. None of their responses has been satisfactory."

"The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — particularly by officials of a coordinate subdivision who person sworn an oath to uphold it," Boasberg wrote.

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