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Judge Boasberg to weigh Trump contempt in deportation case this week
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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered lawyers for the Trump administration and for a class of deported Venezuelan migrants to come to court Wednesday to discuss the case’s status and the long-stalled question of whether the administration willfully defied his earlier court order and acted in contempt.
The new updates, codified in a minute order on Monday, are almost certain to spark fresh ire from President Donald Trump and his allies in a major immigration fight that has stretched on for more than nine months.
At issue is the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 wartime immigration law, to deport 252 Venezuelan migrants from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in March.
Boasberg had issued an emergency order in March blocking the Trump administration’s use of the law to immediately deport migrants to a third country, and ordered officials to return any planes that had already left US soil.
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WASHINGTON, DC- Judge James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the Federal District Court in DC, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, DC on March 16, 2023. (Photo by Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (Washington Post via Getty)
Despite his order, hundreds of migrants arrived in El Salvador hours later — where they remained until July, when they were removed again from CECOT to Venezuela as part of a broader prisoner exchange that involved the return of at least 10 Americans and permanent U.S. residents detained in Venezuela.
Trump officials have argued that the individuals removed were alleged members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. But lawyers for the ACLU and other groups representing the migrants have vehemently disputed that claim, citing several reports from major news outlets that separately concluded that just a handful of individuals deported under the 18th century law had serious criminal records.
The Alien Enemies Act has been used three times previously in U.S. history, and most recently during World War II.
Boasberg tried for months without success to obtain information about the individuals who were deported to CECOT, and to obtain information about who in the Trump administration had ordered the flights in violation of his temporary restraining order.
In April, Boasberg ruled that the court had found «probable cause» to move on criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for failing to return the migrants to U.S. soil, citing what he described as the administration’s «willful disregard» of the court.
Boasberg’s finding that the Trump administration likely acted in contempt of his March 15 emergency order had been halted for months, after a three-judge panel for the appeals court issued an emergency stay halting his order.
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Migrants deported from the U.S. to El Salvador are seen in this March 31, 2025, photo provided by the Salvadoran government. (El Salvador Press Presidency Office/Anadolu via Getty Images)
In August, the judges ruled 2-1 to toss it completely. Their decision was appealed to all eleven judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review the matter en banc.
On Friday, judges on the panel declined by an 8-3 vote to further review Boasberg’s ruling, which in theory would have kept the lower court’s ruling in place. They did not, as some of the judges explained, because the two majority judges for the panel had split in August over the reasons for tossing Boasberg’s opinion.
Therefore, the court said, «the writ of mandamus issued by the panel has no ongoing practical or precedential effect.»
The update from the en banc panel effectively clears the way for Boasberg to consider the contempt proceedings, giving him jurisdiction over the issue again for the first time in more than 200 days.
TRUMP FOE BOASBERG ORDERS DOJ TO DETAIL STATUS OF CECOT MIGRANTS SENT TO VENEZUELA
This split image shows President Donald Trump and a group of protesters demonstrating against the Trump administration’s removal of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison in March 2025. (Getty Images)
Boasberg, for his part, quickly clarified that he intends to move on the contempt question imminently.
In a minute order issued Monday morning, Boasberg ordered lawyers for the Trump administration and the ACLU, who represent the deported class of Venezuelan migrants, to appear in court Wednesday for a previously scheduled motions hearing prepared to discuss case updates and next steps in the contempt inquiry.
The Trump administration has not provided, as of this writing, a list of the migrants sent to CECOT in March, or details of their immigration status in the U.S. prior to removal.
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Boasberg’s emergency order in March touched off a complex legal saga that ultimately spawned dozens of federal court challenges across the country – though the one brought before his court was the very first.
His role overseeing the case has also landed him squarely in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and the president himself, who has repeatedly excoriated Boasberg as an «activist judge.»
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A new terrorist group with suspected links to the Iranian regime emerged in Europe last week. Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya (The Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right) has claimed responsibility for four attacks on Jewish targets across the continent.
A synagogue in Liège, Belgium, was the first target of an explosive attack on Monday. An arson attack on a Rotterdam synagogue followed overnight on Friday and an explosive device was set off at a Jewish school in Amsterdam the next evening.
Several sources have linked an additional attack at a Jewish site in Greece on Wednesday with the group, though no specifics were given about the target or method of attack.
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The scene of an explosion at the synagogue in the rue Leon Fredericq, in Liege on March 9, 2026. The synagogue was hit at around 4am by a blast. A previously unknown terrorist group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, claimed responsibility.
Joe Truzman, senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of the FDD’s Long War Journal, told Fox News Digital that when he saw the statement from the organization following their Monday attack, he «thought it was a little bit amateurish.» Truzman said that after videos from the group became to emerge, he «realized that there’s probably something more here to this organization.»
He said that the war in Iran has likely «compelled the group, for whoever is behind this, to start launching these attacks.» Truzman said he «suspect[s] this organization is being directed» and that there is «an entity behind it.»
Truzman says he suspects the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) itself, which he says «has been active in Europe» and has «attempted to eliminate or assassinate dissidents.» Though he does not discount them being entity of an Iraqi militia group.
A pedestrian walks past a synagogue on ABN Davidsplein in Rotterdam, western Netherlands on March 13, 2026 after an arson attack. A formerly unknown terrorist group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, claimed responsibility. (Media TV via ANP / AFP via Getty Images)
In addition to anticipating further attacks from Ashab al-Yamin, Truzman said that he is concerned that «the dissemination of [terror] videos online may compel other people to commit antisemitic attacks» in Europe. According to Truzman, Ashab al-Yamin’s videos are «starting to gain traction. They’re starting to get the views, and people are seeing it. And maybe the ones that are radicalized already or are going to be radicalized, may be influenced by these videos, and may commit an antisemitic attack or an attack on a Jewish site.»
He said that the attacks «have been mostly unsophisticated, but things may change, and they may start targeting people, too, during the day, when it’s busy.» So far all attacks have come at night.
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Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted on X that the group was tied to the regime in Tehran. «A jihadi group tied to an Iranian proxy» was responsible for the string of attacks. They noted that «the IRGC continues to sponsor and export terror across the globe.»
Onlookers are increasingly tying the attacks back to the war in Iran. The World Jewish Congress raised alarm bells about Ashab al-Yamin on X, stating that «security analysts believe the group may be part of Iran’s expanding network of proxy actors operating far beyond the Middle East.» The Congress called on governments to «treat this threat with the seriousness it deserves, dismantle the networks behind these attacks, and ensure Jewish communities can live and worship in safety.»
Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister, called the attacks «part of a troubling pattern.» He explained that «terror networks linked to the Iranian axis are trying to expand their arena of activity into European cities and Jewish communities.»
Military members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in western Tehran, Iran (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The State Department did not respond to questions about whether it had previously been tracking Ashab al-Yamin, or if it planned to issue a warning to Americans traveling abroad to avoid Jewish institutions, but an alert from the U.S. embassy in the Netherlands on Monday warned, «Following recent targeted explosive incidents in the Netherlands and in other major European cities, the U.S. Mission to the Netherlands reminds U.S. citizens to maintain good personal security practices and exercise heightened situational awareness, consistent with the Department of State’s recent Worldwide Caution alert.»
The alert added, «As noted in the Travel Advisory for the Netherlands, terrorist groups continue plotting possible attacks in the Netherlands. Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets/shopping malls, local government facilities, hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, parks, major sporting and cultural events, educational institutions, airports, and other public areas.»
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Israel’s National Security Council recently warned its citizens traveling abroad to conceal items that might identify them as Israeli or Jewish and to «avoid visiting sites identified as Jewish or Israeli» following the first of three shootings at Toronto synagogues in early March.
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There’s a new push to give federal reparations to descendants of slaves among congressional Democrats, this time being led by progressive Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich.
Thanedar introduced a bill late last week that would set up a federal commission to «study and distribute land reparations» for the descendants of slaves in the U.S. The legislation has no formal backers and faces steep obstacles to advancing in the Republican-controlled House.
«The history of historical injustices against Black Americans by our federal government is nothing short of shameful,» Thanedar told Fox News Digital in a statement. «Formerly enslaved families were promised land as a means of securing freedom and self-sufficiency, but these promises were broken, and the devastating economic effects of this broken promise is still felt today.»
Thanedar’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding how the legislation would work in practice.
Protesters in San Francisco march in support of slavery reparations. (Getty Images)
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Reparations refer to financial compensation for Black Americans intended to address economic harms their ancestors experienced during slavery and the Jim Crow era. Republicans oppose the idea over eligibility concerns and their belief that present-day Americans should not be responsible for harms committed generations ago.
The reparations push comes as Thanedar, a two-term lawmaker, is facing a serious challenge from the left ahead of Michigan’s August 2026 primary. State Rep. Donavan McKinney, D-Mich., is vying to unseat Thanedar in the deep-blue district with the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt., and the progressive group, Justice Democrats — despite Thanedar’s own progressive credentials.
But Thanedar’s support for Israel has served to alienate him from the furthest-left flank of his party, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a fellow member of his state’s delegation. He left the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), of which Tlaib is a member, after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel in 2023.
Tlaib is also supporting McKinney’s campaign.
Thanedar, an Indian American, has supported slavery reparations since before his congressional tenure.
«Every other community has — Japanese Americans got their [reparations], American Indians got their reparations,» the Michigan Democrat said in 2022 while running for Congress. «This is something that needs to be handled in a fair way.»
Rep. Shri Thanedar argues reparations are necessary to correct a «broken promise» to descendants of slaves. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
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Thanedar is an original cosponsor of H.R. 40, also known as the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, which aims to kickstart the reparations process for descendants of slaves. The Michigan Democrat is also a proud supporter of more expansive legislation that aims to transfer $14 trillion in estimated losses to reparations recipients.
The legislation was originally introduced by Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., in 2023, when it was similarly dead on arrival in the GOP-controlled House.
Progressive Democrats have long advocated for the passage of reparations legislation but have encountered resistance from members of the party’s moderate flank who view the idea as politically toxic.
Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., vetoed legislation in 2025 that would have enacted a reparations commission at the state level. Moore is notably one of the only Black Democratic governors in the country and is rumored to have presidential ambitions.
Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., broke with progressive members of the Democratic Party in 2025 over slavery reparations. (Shannon Finney/NBC via Getty Images)
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Thanedar has also introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump and other Trump administration figures, despite opposition from House Democratic leadership.
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