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My name's Paul Henley.
A federal judge in the US has ruled
that the Trump administration willfully ignored a court order to turn back deportation flights.
Proceedings have been launched to determine whether to hold President Trump in contempt of court.
The judge has given the government a week to respond.
Nomia Iqbal is North America correspondent for the BBC and she's been speaking to me from Washington DC.
She told me the judge had said he hadn't made his decision lightly.
He did.
Now Judge Boasberg just reminded the top judge in Washington DC.
He's been pressing the Trump administration for weeks asking why did it send more than 200 people, mainly Venezuelans,
out of the US,
dumped them in a Salvadorian prison without any due process and also when he had ordered them not to do so.
The Trump administration has been accused of basically refusing to give any details,
really sort of pushing back at the judge.
And so we've got to this point now where Mr. Boasberg,
he grilled the Department of Justice lawyer and suggested
that the government had acted in bad faith and did all this intentionally and used pretty strong language,
saying the Trump administration knowingly and willfully breached a court order.