DOJ Appeals For Stay In Judge’s Contempt Proceedings

NBC News reports:

The Trump administration has filed an emergency motion with a federal appeals court seeking to block a judge’s order finding probable cause to hold it in contempt over deportation flights it sent to El Salvador.

The filing to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals alleges U.S. District Judge James Boasberg was trying to punish the administration for a “nonexistent case of criminal contempt. Defendants fully complied with the TROs the district court issued, and certainly did not flout any clear, unambiguous command.”

In a March 15 hearing, Boasberg issued an order temporarily halting any deportations under Trump’s invocation of the rarely used Alien Enemies Act, and directed that any flights taking such deportees out of the country be turned back. In its filing today, the government said that the directive wasn’t included in his subsequent written order and other language Boasberg used was vague.

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