Judge Boasberg’s new ruling doesn’t question the AEA designation but says each of the deportees should have had a chance to argue he wasn’t a member of the gang, and therefore shouldn’t have been deported under the abbreviated procedures of the 1798 law.

Judge Boasberg’s new ruling doesn’t question the AEA designation but says each of the deportees should have had a chance to argue he wasn’t a member of the gang, and therefore shouldn’t have been deported under the abbreviated procedures of the 1798 law.