US District Judge James Boasberg on Friday extended the detention order while blocking deportation under the alien enemy law for two weeks.
The order came a few hours after Trump’s administration asked the US Supreme Court to immediately lift the Boasberg Block about the use of AEA to deport the alleged members of the de Aragua trend gang.
The temporary detention of the Boasberg judge who prevented the deportation issued on March 15th ended on Saturday, and his new order expanded the order until at least 12 April. He also named April 8 to consider a more durable preliminary order.
“As explained by this court, the Plaintiff has the right to the Tro who ordered their transfer at least until they have the opportunity to challenge that they are covered by the proclamation,” Judge Boasberg wrote about the temporary detention order.
In his emergency request to the previous Friday Supreme Court, Trump’s administrative lawyer wrote that “Only this court can stop the rules for the rules from further than reversing the separation of the power and faster, the better.”
“Here, the District Court’s order has rejected the presidential assessment of how to protect the nation against foreign terrorist organizations and take the risk of weakening effects for complicated foreign negotiations,” wrote Acting General Sarah Harris.
“More broadly, the rules-demi-Tro has become very common among the district court so that the basic function of the executive branch is in danger. Within two months from the day of the inauguration, the District Court has issued more than 40 orders or troops on the executive branch,” Harris wrote.
Allegations of members of the Venezuelan Criminal Organization Trend de Aragua deported by the US government, detained at the Center for Terrorism in Tecoluca, El Salvador in a photo obtained by March 16, 2025.
Presidential Office of President El Salvador via Reuters
The appeal follows the 2-1 decision on Wednesday by the DC appeal court which upholds Boasberg’s orders and maintains his jurisdiction in this matter.
The appeal court heard the Monday argument for the use of Trump administration from the Enemy Alien Law earlier this month to deport more than 200 alleged members of the Migrant Gang to El Salvador without a reasonable process.
Trump requested an alien enemy law for the war that was used to deport non-citizens with a legal process that was not much-arguing that the Venezuelan Gang Trend de Aragua was the “hybrid criminal state” that attacked the United States.
Judge Boasberg temporarily blocked the use of presidential law to deport the alleged gang members, said the transfer was “very frightening” and “very troublesome,” and ordered the government to hand over two flights carrying more than 200 alleged members of the De Aragua trend to El Salvador. The authorities failed to reverse flights, saying they were already in international waters.
An official with an enforcement of immigration and US customs and excise is then recognized in the declaration of swearing that “many” from the alleged gang members did not have criminal records in the United States -but said that “the lack of specific information about each individual who really highlighted the risks they proposed” and “show that they are terrorists related to who we do not have a complete profile.”