Judges extend orders against deportation flights, including wartime act on violent Venezuelan gang members

A federal judge on Friday ruled a restraining order on the Alien Enemies Act will be extended through April 12, while another judge in Boston blocks deportation of migrants.

WASHINGTON, DC- Judge James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the Federal District Court in DC, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, DC on March 16, 2023. (Photo by Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (Washington Post via Getty)

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In a bench ruling, he ordered all planes carrying Venezuelan nationals or other deportees under the Alien Enemies Act be returned.

The administration later filed an emergency request for the U.S. appeals court to intervene. 

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