Boasberg ruled on the issue of whether the Trump administration intentionally violated his order on March 15 barring the government from deporting any migrants under President Donald Trump’s executive order that invoked the Alien Enemies Act, with Boasberg ruling—first verbally during a hearing, and then in a written order hours later—the White House could not temporarily deport anyone under that order while he continued considering the issue.

The Trump administration deported more than 200 migrants to El Salvador on March 15 despite Boasberg’s order, maintaining that it did not violate the court ruling because the flights had already left before his written order was issued—and while they didn’t land until after the judge’s ruling came out, the government believed Boasberg lost authority over the flights once they left U.S. airspace.

Boasberg ruled there’s “probable cause” the Trump administration acted in contempt of court by carrying out the flights, writing the government “demonstrate[d] a willful disregard” for his ruling and though the judge gave officials “ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions,” “none of their responses has been satisfactory.”

While the Supreme Court later threw out Boasberg’s ruling and said the Trump administration can deport people under the Alien Enemies Act, Boasberg argued that doesn’t stop him from holding officials in contempt for defying his order while it was still in effect, writing, “It is a foundational legal precept that every judicial order ‘must be obeyed’ — no matter how ‘erroneous’ it ‘may be’ — until a court reverses it.”

No officials will be punished immediately as a result of Boasberg’s Wednesday ruling, as the judge said he’s first giving the government a chance to “purge” its contempt—likely by returning the migrants it deported to the U.S.—before moving forward with identifying who was responsible for defying his order and referring them for prosecution, if the Trump administration still doesn’t comply.