The case involves deportation flights to El Salvador and whether the administration ignored the judge’s order that they return to the United States.

The 2-1 decision finds that Judge James Boasberg abused his powers in seeking compliance with a court order that had been thrown out by the Supreme Court.

A U.S. appeals court overturned on Friday a lower court's ruling that found probable cause to hold Trump administration officials in contempt over their handling of the deportations of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants under a centuries-old wartime law.