Lawyers for the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to block U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's newly revived contempt inquiry into its Alien Enemies Act deportations, arguing in a new filing that the appeals court should intervene to block the contempt inquiry altogether, or at the very least, block the scheduled testimony of two DOJ officials scheduled for next week.The writ of mandamus, filed with the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit, seeks to head off the contempt inquiry altogether, which Justice Department lawyers described as an "idiosyncratic and misguide...

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