Judge restarts contempt probe over deportation flights to El Salvador

A federal judge’s inquiry to determine which Trump administration officials violated a court order that barred deportation flights to El Salvador is back on after a seven-month pause for appeals.

The order, issued in March by Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia, would have lasted for two weeks. Instead, it touched off one of the biggest clashes between President Donald Trump and the judiciary this year. Trump has made mass deportations a cornerstone of his second-term agenda. Judges across the country have found that many migrants are being wrongly deported or being denied the right to contest their removals in court.