The Trump administration was found in contempt of court Friday after wrongfully deporting a young Salvadoran man last month. It was the second time the government deported him after his unlawful removal in March, his return to the United States, and his subsequent removal again.

U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher ruled that the administration violated three separate orders she issued in a class action settlement involving unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in the United States. The dispute has become a flash point for Trump administration defiance of court orders.

About 100 asylum seekers have been wrongfully deported in violation of the settlement agreement Gallagher approved. The latest contempt finding centers on a young man identified in court only as “E.L.A.”

The administration and lawyers for the class had been locked in a standoff for four weeks. Although the administration conceded that his removal was an error and prepared to return him, it opposed conditions sought by his lawyers.

Those lawyers wanted E.L.A. released upon his return to the United States. They also wanted protection against another deportation until his asylum application had been heard.

Gallagher’s opinion finding the administration in contempt remains under seal, but her order was made public. She granted some, but not all, of the conditions that E.L.A.’s lawyers requested for his return.

Gallagher ordered the administration to return E.L.A. to the United States and give him and his lawyers three days notice of the time and place of his arrival. She also prohibited another removal until his asylum application is fully adjudicated.

The administration must provide five business days notice to E.L.A. and his lawyers if it intends to remove him again for any reason. It must also return all personal property and documents taken from him during the wrongful deportation.

Gallagher did not order E.L.A. released from custody upon his return, despite the request from his lawyers. Her order nevertheless blocks the administration from immediately deporting him for a third time while his asylum application remains pending.

The order makes no mention of sanctions against the government for its contempt. E.L.A.’s lawyers have not yet sought sanctions because their immediate focus after the second deportation was getting him returned and preventing another rapid removal.

Gallagher previously found the administration in contempt in July over a different aspect of the same case. Friday’s decision adds another contempt finding to a dispute already involving roughly 100 wrongful deportations.

The contempt ruling led a Morning Memo that also detailed turmoil involving the Trump Justice Department. Federal prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg stepped down last week to defend herself over her role in the mishandling of the Broadview Six grand jury.

Mecklenburg sent a blistering resignation letter to U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros. She blamed him for pursuing felony charges against ICE protesters despite her recommendation that they face misdemeanor charges, a claim the Trump Justice Department later denied.

A key hearing examining Trump Justice Department misconduct in that case is scheduled for Thursday. The memo also reported personnel turmoil inside the FBI Washington Field Office’s counterterrorism division.

Division head Michael Burgwald and his deputy, Courtland Rae, were demoted Friday amid dissatisfaction with their investigation into allegedly threatening calls made to MAGA podcaster Katie Miller. Miller is the wife of White House aide Stephen Miller.

“The orders from the bureau’s DC chief Darren Cox stemmed from frustration shared by the Miller family that the field office was moving slowly in probing allegedly harassing phone messages,” Bloomberg reported.

The White House denied involvement in the removals. Cox said the decision was his rather than FBI Director Kash Patel’s, although Patel reportedly “was also displeased with the office’s progress on the case.”

Chad Mizelle, the former chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi, also boasted to The Wall Street Journal about targeting providers of gender affirming care for minors. “I told them until they perp-walk a doctor, the job is not done.”

The administration separately ran a pro Trump television advertisement paid for by the U.S. government after airing another advertisement described as coming directly from Trump’s 2024 campaign. CNN, meanwhile, was barred from Air Force One on Saturday after prevailing in court to regain its White House credentials.

Five United Kingdom nationals were arrested Sunday on suspicion of terrorism outside a Royal Air Force base used by the U.S. Air Force for operations against Iran. All five men were in their 20s, while a bomb disposal team was reportedly present and several dozen nearby homes were evacuated.