Heah come de Judge!

White House communications director Steven Cheung appeared to mock a federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to return deportation flights to the United States.

In a court hearing on Saturday, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said that two flights carrying immigrants to El Salvador and Honduras should be immediately turned around. The judge also issued a temporary order barring the administration from using an 18th-century law to justify additional deportations.

The Associated Press reported on Sunday that the flight did not return to the U.S. despite the judge’s order.

“Oopsie…Too late,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele wrote on X, mocking a headline reporting on the federal judge’s order.

To make matters worse, Cheung recirculated Bukele’s post, the Associated Press said.

Georgetown University Law Center professor Steve Vladeck said Boasberg did not technically tell the Trump administration to turn around the flight in his written order since he gave the order verbally at the hearing.

“This just incentivizes future courts to be hyper specific in their orders and not give the government any wiggle room,” Vladeck explained.

The ACLU asked the court to clarify whether the Trump administration violated the judge’s order.

“This morning, we asked the government to assure the Court that its order was not violated and are waiting to hear, as well as trying to do our own investigation,” a statement from the ACLU’s Lee Gelernt said.

A spokesperson for Attorney General Pam Bondi declined to say if the court’s order had been defied.

Written by David Edwards for Raw Story ~ March 16, 2025