{"id":5349,"date":"2025-04-18T01:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T01:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/doj-defends-deportations-appealing-dc-district-judges-finding-of-cause-for-contempt\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T01:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T01:20:26","slug":"doj-defends-deportations-appealing-dc-district-judges-finding-of-cause-for-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/doj-defends-deportations-appealing-dc-district-judges-finding-of-cause-for-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Defends Deportations, Appealing DC District Judge&#8217;s Finding of Cause for Contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The Trump administration filed a notice of appeal Wednesday asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review a trial court\u2019s order finding probable cause for criminal contempt on allegations the government willfully disregarded a temporary restraining order prohibiting hasty \u201cAlien Enemy\u201d deportations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>U.S. District Chief Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia ruled the government<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/nationallawjournal\/2025\/04\/16\/read-the-decision-us-judge-finds-cause-for-holding-the-trump-administration-in-criminal-contempt-for-defying-tro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <u>willfully disregarded his March 15 TRO<\/u><\/a> by deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members to the CECOT prison in El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 after he had prohibited such action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration filed a notice of appeal Wednesday asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review a trial court\u2019s order finding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5559,1571,1590,5225,1851,1343,3012,915],"class_list":["post-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-appealing","tag-contempt","tag-defends","tag-deportations","tag-district","tag-doj","tag-finding","tag-judges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349","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=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}