James E. “Jeb” Boasberg. (Photo via: dcd.uscourts.gov) / (R) TOPSHOT - Prisoners with MS-13 gang tattoos look out of their cell as unseen US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem tours the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) as prisoners stand, looking out from a cell, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025. (Photo by Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEX BRANDON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Judge Boasberg: Trump admin must facilitate return of over 100 deported Venezuelans or give them due process hearings

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the Trump administration must either facilitate the return of more than 100 Venezuelan men — deported earlier this year to El Salvador’s CECOT megaprison — or provide them with due process hearings to challenge their removal and purported gang ties.

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(Background) WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 18: U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on December 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the ceremony, Trump signed the order reclassifying marijuana as a schedule III drug. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) / (R) Employees inspect cannabis plants at cannabis grower Hollandse Hoogtes, where regulated cannabis cultivation takes place in a grow center, in Bemmel on April 1, 2025. Weed growers are gearing up for the next phase of the cannabis experiment in which coffeeshops, in the participating municipality, switch entirely to cannabis solely from regulated growers. (Photo by Sem van der Wal / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by SEM VAN DER WAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump signs EO to expedite marijuana rescheduling to Schedule III, stops short of full legalization

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue and expedite the potential rescheduling of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III — a major shift in federal drug policy by advancing a process that could lead to federal recognition of the drug’s medicinal qualities.

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