U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to bring back 137 deported migrants at taxpayers' expense after ruling they were denied due process.

What Price for Due Process? On Monday, toward the end of another court hearing in the interminable Alien Enemies

The judge chided the Trump administration for its "defiance" of a court order, the "flagrancy" of its due process violations, and a "solution-less mire." The post 'Essentially told the Court to pound sand': Judge makes Trump admin pay for 'defiance' with airfare to US for 'third country' deportees who 'desire' return first appeared on Law & Crime.

A federal appeals court ruled the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 can’t be used to deport members of Tren de Aragua, which has been a target of the Trump administration. The act was established to give presidents more power to deport and incarcerate ...

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court panel has ruled that President Donald Trump cannot use an 18th-century wartime law to speed the deportations of people his administration accuses of being in a Venezuelan gang. The decision blocking an administration ...

The complaint is related to Boasberg's handling of the administration's swift removals of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador and the Alien Enemies Act.

"I found they were not given due process," U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg said at a court hearing, referring to 137 certified class members who were hastily removed from the United States after President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to justify their deportations.