Judge Boasberg Cancels Hearing After SCOTUS Vacates His Orders

The Supreme Court ruled that the case was wrongly brought in Washington, instead of where illegal immigrants are being held.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington on March 16, 2023. Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via AP

A federal judge whose orders preventing the Department of Homeland Security from deporting suspected gang members were recently vacated by the Supreme Court has canceled a hearing that could have led to an extension of the orders.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in a minute order on April 8 cited the Supreme Court’s action in canceling the hearing, which was scheduled for Tuesday in Washington and slated for arguments in favor of and against entering a preliminary injunction against the government.