‘Plainly false’: Trump administration accused of lying judge in high-stakes ICE fight

An ICE agent told a federal judge that a deportation flight to Equatorial Guinea had been canceled. But the next day, the plane arrived — prompting lawyers for a man the government was ordered to bring home to accuse the administration of lying in court.That’s according to The American Prospect, which reported Friday that lawyers called out the government’s sworn account as “plainly false” and asked the judge to stop the aircraft from leaving without their client, Ahmed Soliman.The plane departed roughly two and a half hours after landing, before the judge ruled.Soliman “continues to suffer irreparable harm every day that he remains in Equatorial Guinea,” his attorneys wrote in an emergency motion.Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge John C. Hinderaker in Arizona ordered the administration to return Soliman, a 31-year-old gay Egyptian national, ruling his due process rights were violated when he was deported to Equatorial Guinea in April.But...