Athree-judge panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals on Tuesday ordered Chief Judge James Boasberg to end a contempt investigation of the Trump administration over its failure to comply with an order that it turn around deportation flights.
Boasberg attracted national attention as the judge overseeing a challenge to President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected Venezuelan gang members.
The three-judge panel that Boasberg abused his discretion by continuing his investigation and found that the administration had a “clear and indisputable right” to the end of the prove, the Associated Press reported.
As issue was the failure of the administration to turn around flights that had already departed after Boasberg demanded they return to the United States while en route to El Salvador.
