The Trump administration faced accusations of contempt of court after deporting 238 Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador, contravening a federal judge's order to return them to the U.S. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele welcomed the detainees, indicating they would be held for at least a year. The incident intensified scrutiny of the Trump administration's legal authority in handling immigration matters, as they hinted at alternative legal justifications for the deportations. This situation brings to the forefront the ongoing tensions between the executive and judicial branches of government.
This sure looks like contempt of court to me, said David Super, a law professor at Georgetown University.
The Trump administration moved one large step closer to a constitutional showdown with the judicial branch of government when airplane-loads of Venezuelan detainees deplaned in El Salvador.
Around the same time, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in another social media post, thanked Mr. Bukele for a lengthy post detailing the migrants' incarceration.
The filing implied that the government had a different legal authority for deporting the Venezuelans besides the one blocked by the judge.
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