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Boasberg says a president can 'clear' the case by returning deportees

A federal judge is threatening President Donald Trump and his administration with criminal contempt charges for removing illegal aliens, those who were also described as members of violent criminal gangs, from America.

The judge had ordered several jetliners carrying the deportees, apparently already in flight, to turn around and bring the criminals back to America, and the administration didn't, as it explained the flights already were in international airspace and the judge had no authority for his order.

Now the judge, James Boasberg, who is well known for his open antagonism toward the president, has unleashed his ire.

He claims to have decided there was "cause" to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt for refusing to follow his political ideology.

Boasberg now alleges the administration can "clear" the contempt by following his latest strategy to accommodate illegals, likely members of criminal gangs.

The judge said, "Given the finding of probable cause for contempt set forth in the accompanying memorandum opinion, the court orders that; {1) if defendants opt to purge their contempt, they shall file by April 23, 2025, a declaration explaining the steps they have taken and will take to do so, and (2) if defendants opt not to purge their contempt, they shall instead file by April 23, 2025, declaration{s} identifying the individual{s} who, with knowledge of the court's classwide temporary restraining order, made the decision not to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. custody on March 15 and 16, 2025."

The demand for "steps" suggests that the judge is insisting the criminals be brought back to the United States, a move that the president of El Salvador where they now are imprisoned has said, in another similar high-profile case, won't happen.

The judge, in his opinion, said he had decided that the administration's actions were a "willful disregard" for the court.

Of course, the judge has no resources to enforce his "contempt" campaign.
Fox News reported, "The Justice Department could then request that the contempt be prosecuted by an attorney for the government and, should they decline to prosecute the matter, could 'appoint another attorney to prosecute the contempt.'"