AND NOW MORE ON BOASBERG--CONTEMPT BACKFIRES--JUDGE PUT IN HIS PLACE

It opens like this: a federal district judge decided he could micromanage deportation flights in real time—then the appellate court yanked the reins and reminded everyone that courts are not mini State Departments. On August 8, 2025, a divided D.C. Circuit panel vacated Judge James Boasberg’s criminal-contempt gambit against Trump officials over the Venezuela-to-El-Salvador deportation flights, a clean 2–1 win for the administration and a sharp curb on trial-court overreach into executive foreign-affairs turf. Read about it here from Reuters and the AP.