Appeals court delays order on due process for El Salvador deportees [View all]
Source: ABC News
June 10, 2025, 11:48 PM
In a legal win for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court has temporarily delayed a court order that required the federal government to give the men it deported to El Salvador in March a way to challenge their detentions.
A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an administrative stay of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's court order to give the hundreds of migrants deported to El Salvador's notorious CECOT mega-prison the right to challenge their detentions as unlawful.
The decision comes one day ahead of a deadline the Trump administration faced to outline a plan for the men to challenge their removals and detentions. The ruling is temporary as the appeals process plays out and did not consider the legal merits of the arguments at issue. The court set a briefing schedule through June 18.
Earlier Tuesday, the Trump administration had filed an emergency motion to stay the order, arguing that because Boasberg previously found that the U.S. "lacks constructive custody" over the deportees held at CECOT, the court lacks jurisdiction over their habeas claims.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-appeal-order-granting-el-salvador-deportees/story?id=122691862
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