{"id":38951,"date":"2025-04-16T18:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/us-judge-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-trump-officials-in-contempt-over-alien-act-deportations\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:48:07","slug":"us-judge-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-trump-officials-in-contempt-over-alien-act-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/us-judge-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-trump-officials-in-contempt-over-alien-act-deportations\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt over alien act deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal judge opens proceedings over administration\u2019s use of wartime act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/16\/donald-trump-inflation-tariffs-china-trade-war-immigration-us-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that there was probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt for violating his temporary injunction that barred the use of the Alien Enemies Act wartime power to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.<\/p>\n<p>US district judge James Boasberg warned he could refer the matter for prosecution if the administration does not \u201cpurge\u201d its contempt. Boasberg said the administration could avoid this by returning people sent to the notorious Cecot prison in El Salvador in violation of his order so that they \u201cmight avail themselves of their right to challenge their removability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/16\/trump-deportation-ruling-venezuelan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal judge opens proceedings over administration\u2019s use of wartime act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members US politics live \u2013 latest updates A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that there was probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt for violating his temporary injunction that barred the use of the Alien Enemies Act wartime power &#8230; <a title=\"US judge finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt over alien act deportations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/us-judge-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-trump-officials-in-contempt-over-alien-act-deportations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US judge finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt over alien act deportations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}