Deportation Cases Spark Debate About Role of Judiciary in Foreign Affairs

The Trump administration told a judge that ‘foreign affairs cannot operate on judicial timelines.’
Deportation Cases Spark Debate About Role of Judiciary in Foreign Affairs
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office of the White House on April 14, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Sam Dorman
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Ongoing battles over the legality of the Trump administration’s deportations of illegal immigrants have fostered conditions for a constitutional showdown questioning where judicial authority ends and the executive’s begins.

In Washington, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has suggested that in order for the administration to avoid being held in criminal contempt, it should reassert custody over at least some of those deported individuals. Meanwhile, Paula Xinis, a federal judge in Maryland, has similarly indicated that the administration could be held in contempt for not facilitating the return of one of those detainees, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to the United States.
Sam Dorman
Sam Dorman
Washington Correspondent
Sam Dorman is a Washington correspondent covering courts and politics for The Epoch Times. You can follow him on X at @EpochofDorman.
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