{"id":17407,"date":"2025-04-17T19:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17407"},"modified":"2025-04-17T19:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:08:06","slug":"federal-judge-in-deportation-case-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-the-trump-administration-in-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17407","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge in Deportation Case Finds Probable Cause To Hold the Trump Administration in Contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;In an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.81.0_5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opinion<\/a>&nbsp;issued on Wednesday, a federal judge found that the evidence &#8220;strongly support[s]&#8221; the conclusion that the Trump administration &#8220;willfully disobeyed&#8221; a March 15 order temporarily barring the removal of suspected Venezuelan gang members as &#8220;alien enemies.&#8221; James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, says the government&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-deportation-venezuela-tren-de-aragua.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">actions<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;demonstrate a willful disregard&#8221; for that order, &#8220;sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/16\/federal-judge-in-deportation-case-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-the-trump-administration-in-contempt\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/16\/federal-judge-in-deportation-case-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-the-trump-administration-in-contempt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In an opinion issued on Wednesday, a federal judge found that the evidence &#8220;strongly support[s]&#8221; the conclusion that the Trump administration &#8220;willfully disobeyed&#8221; a March 15 order temporarily barring the removal of suspected Venezuelan gang members as &#8220;alien enemies.&#8221; James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, says the government&#8217;s actions &#8220;demonstrate a willful disregard&#8221; for that order, &#8220;sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/16\/federal-judge-in-deportation-case-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-the-trump-administration-in-contempt\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,429,790,431,838,221,1638,1224,26,493,25,332,1489,1213,201,170],"class_list":["post-17407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-constitution","tag-courts","tag-democracy","tag-deportation","tag-donald-trump","tag-due-process","tag-gang-violence","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-judge","tag-judges","tag-judiciary","tag-rule-of-law","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17408,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17407\/revisions\/17408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}