The push to deport a group of Venezuelans raises questions about whether the government is following a Supreme Court order requiring that migrants receive due process.

Deportation flights have been cleared for takeoff as two Trump-appointed judges blocked attempts to pause proceedings over the use of an obscure wartime law. James Boasberg, chief judge of the Washington D.

President Donald Trump has temporarily prevailed in his battle with a federal judge over the use of an 18th-century law to resume deportation flights, but questions remain on whether his administration violated an original court order stopping the departures and what happens if they did.