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.

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 Bozberg, even though this is a pretty important step, it's actually

still a fairly cautious one. He's not holding anyone in contempt yet. He's saying, I think there's probable cause to believe there's

contempt. And he wants to know more. He wants the government to produce more information about exactly

who knew what, when about those three plane flights. So we've now had a response from the White

House as well. Communications Director Stephen Chung posted this online. He said, we plan to seek

immediate appellate relief. The president is 100% committed to ensuring that terrorists and criminal

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