TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 20, 2025

Last week, a federal judge said the Trump administration’s response to his request for more information on recent Venezuelan deportation flights was insufficient and failed to show it complied with an earlier court ruling, The Hill reports. In a new order, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said the Justice Department missed the deadline to hand over flight information. The department instead had submitted a declaration that “Cabinet Secretaries are currently actively considering whether to invoke the state secrets privilege.” Boasberg on Wednesday had given the administration an extension to today to respond to his request for detailed information about weekend flights that deported alleged Venezuelan gang members, despite his order to turn the planes around. Last week, Boasberg preemptively blocked efforts to deport Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798 after the ACLU sued over the plan.