D.C. Circuit halts contempt inquiry over Venezuelan migrant deportations

A U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit halted a district court’s criminal-contempt probe into whether Trump-era officials violated an order to turn around two deportation flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, ruling the inquiry would intrude on executive branch autonomy and raise separation-of-powers concerns; Judge Neomi Rao wrote the majority, with Judge J. Michelle Childs dissenting.