US President Donald Trump will converse to the media throughout a guided tour of the John F. Kennedy Middle for Performing Arts earlier than main the board assembly held in Washington, D.C. on March 17, 2025.
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A federal choose on Monday questioned Justice Division legal professionals and whether or not the Trump administration opposed an order calling for the return of gang members allegedly returning to the USA in the event that they had been nonetheless within the air as a part of a deportation effort.
Supreme Court docket Justice James Boasberg rejected the DOJ’s request {that a} listening to within the U.S. District Court docket in Washington, D.C. could be suspended early Monday.
Boasberg advised the DOJ that he was ready to reply whether or not custody of the person topic to the declaration of expulsion has been handed over to a international nation after the choose issued an order calling for return on Saturday.
The choose additionally acknowledged, “After both a written or oral order of the courtroom has been issued, a flight with a person topic to the declaration has begun. After a flight with a person topic to the declaration has been issued after both a written or oral order of the courtroom has been issued, whether or not a flight with a person topic to the courtroom has been issued or not has been issued?”
On Sunday, the Trump administration stated it had deported a whole lot of members of Venezuelan gangs to El Salvador underneath the wartime alien enemy legal guidelines.
The courtroom’s DOJ filed Sunday stated earlier than Boasberg introduced the order “some gang members topic to the declaration eliminated underneath the declaration had already been faraway from the US territory.”
“The written order and the administration’s actions should not inconsistent,” White Home spokesperson Caroline Leavitt, stated in a press release Sunday.
“As well as, because the Supreme Court docket has repeatedly made clear, federal courts usually don’t have any authority to take away international international terrorists from the US soil and combat again in opposition to declared aggression,” Leavitt stated.
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