{"id":5332,"date":"2025-04-17T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/us-judge-finds-cause-for-holding-the-trump-administration-in-criminal-contempt-for-defying-tro\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T07:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:14:18","slug":"us-judge-finds-cause-for-holding-the-trump-administration-in-criminal-contempt-for-defying-tro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/us-judge-finds-cause-for-holding-the-trump-administration-in-criminal-contempt-for-defying-tro\/","title":{"rendered":"US Judge Finds Cause for Holding the Trump Administration in Criminal Contempt for Defying TRO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A federal judge on Wednesday found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for transferring two planeloads of passengers to a mega-prison in El Salvador in violation of his March 15 temporary restraining order halting hasty deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>\u201cAs this Opinion will detail,\u201d Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia wrote in his 46-page decision filed Wednesday, \u201cthe Court ultimately determines that the Government\u2019s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt. The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions. None of their responses has been satisfactory.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Wednesday found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for transferring two planeloads of passengers to a mega-prison in El Salvador [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2585,1571,173,5547,674,2295,423,700,409],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-administration","tag-contempt","tag-criminal","tag-defying","tag-finds","tag-holding","tag-judge","tag-tro","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}