Judge vows to determine if Trump administration ignored order blocking deportation flights
Then-candidate Donald Trump speaks along the southern border with Mexico in Sierra Vista, Ariz., in August. A federal judge examining the Trump administration’s use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador vowed Friday to “get to the bottom” of whether the government defied his order to turn the planes around. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington is trying to determine if the administration ignored his turnaround order last weekend when at least two planeloads of immigrants were still in flight. Earlier Friday, the Justice Department informed the judge that top leaders in President Trump’s administration are debating whether to invoke a “state secrets privilege” in response to the district judge’s questions about the deportation flights. The judge ordered the Trump administration to either provide more details about the flights or assert a claim that disclosing the information would harm “state secrets.” The Republican administration has largely resisted the judge’s request, calling it an “unnecessary judicial fishing” expedition.
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