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Federal judges are still treating the Trump administration like a good-faith litigant, and that has to stop. The administration doesn't believe it has to follow court orders it doesn't like and keeps figuring out ways to avoid complying. The most brazen defiance so far happened over the weekend, after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1978 to deport more than 200 Venezuelans he claims are gang members of Tren de Aragua. At an emergency hearing on Saturday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg blocked the deportations. Department of Justice lawyers told the court that two planes were already in the air. Boasberg verbally ordered the administration to turn those planes around. They did not. |
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