Appeals Court Blocks Contempt Case Over Deportation Flights

Pro-Trump narrative

The D.C. Circuit was right to shut down Boasberg's contempt probe. His order never clearly barred transferring migrants to Salvadoran custody, so criminal contempt had no legal foundation. Boasberg kept expanding his inquest into executive-branch national security decisions well after the Supreme Court vacated his original order, which is a textbook separation of powers violation. The appeals court's mandamus was not just warranted — it was long overdue.