Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, a federal judge for the first time says there's probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for defying orders to halt deportations to El Salvador.

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There was no evidence of an association between the MMR vaccine and autism. Welcome to the News Hour. What started a month ago as a challenge to the Trump administration's deportation policy has morphed into a full-blown battle over executive and judicial power.

For the first time, a federal judge in Washington said there is probable cause to hold the

administration in criminal contempt. This, after Judge James Bosberg, says Trump officials

defied his orders to turn around planes carrying deported migrants to a mega prison in El Salvador.

The administration says it will appeal.

To explain what this latest order means, we're joined again by Steve Vladik, a constitutional

law professor at Georgetown University.

Steve, thanks for joining us.

So in part of Judge Bosberg's opinion today, he wrote this.

Quote, the court ultimately determines that the government's actions on that day demonstrate

a willful disregard for its order, sufficient for the court to conclude that probable cause

exists to find the government in criminal contempt.

Steve, willful disregard for its order.

Is the judge saying here that the administration is not

complying with his orders? Certainly at least that it did not comply, Omna, at least back on March

15th, when we had those three planes of immigrants who were sent to El Salvador. And I think one of the

important notes here is that, you know, Chief Judge Boasberg, even though this is a pretty important step, it's actually still a fairly cautious one.

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