Trump's handpicked judge just put Kristi Noem 'in a bind': ex-prosecutor

One of President Donald Trump's favorite judges issued a ruling last week that could make Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's contempt proceedings much more difficult to navigate, according to a legal expert.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been conducting a contempt investigation into Noem concerning an instance from mid-March where DHS failed to turn around a plane carrying detained immigrants to El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison. Boasberg had previously ordered DHS to turn the plan around...