Boasberg found the administration showed a "willful disregard" of order temporarily blocking its use of a 1789 wartime powers law.

Judge James E. Boasberg has pressed Trump officials for weeks on their compliance with his order to return migrants deported under the Alien Enemies Act.

A federal judge says he's found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court for violating his orders last month to turn around planes carrying deportees to an El Salvador prison.