Justia’s docket extract for June 4, 2025, ECF 147, records an order signed by Chief Judge James E. Boasberg: plaintiffs’ preliminary-injunction motion granted in part and denied in part; class certification denied without prejudice as to a “Criminal Custody Class” and granted, with modifications, as to a “CECOT Class” defined as all noncitizens removed from U.S. custody and transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador on March 15 and 16, 2025, solely pursuant to the Tren de Aragua Alien Enemies Act proclamation. Defendants were ordered, by June 11, 2025, to file a notice on how they intended to facilitate the CECOT class’s ability to seek habeas relief.
The accompanying memorandum (ECF 148, CourtListener) is his opinion. Fox News reported the due-process remedial order as a command to “bring back” the CECOT migrant class. Breitbart, June 5, 2025, quoted him: “In short, the Government must facilitate the Class’s ability to seek habeas relief to contest their removal under the Act.” Facilitation language is in the order. “Bring back” is a news paraphrase. This page uses the docket’s “facilitate” wording for the Fact sentence.
A later December 22, 2025, memorandum (ECF 215) again addressed constructive custody and hearings after intervening appellate action. Epoch Times reported subsequent February 2026 facilitation/parole language. Those later papers are real. They are not a Supreme Court holding restoring the March TROs. They are not a finding that every class member was innocent of gang membership. He wrote that it was possible the Act was lawfully invoked and that some individuals might in fact be gang members — and that the process question was the hearing.