The Trump administration has insisted it didn’t violate a judge’s written ruling—but he’s expressed skepticism.

Hundreds of mostly Venezuelan alleged gang members were deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador on Sunday, with the Trump administration invoking wartime powers to speed up removals despite a court ruling halting the move.

P resident Trump on Tuesday escalated his campaign to discredit judges who get in his way, calling on Congress to impeach the judge at the center of a legal fight over the deportation of hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador. Trump’s brazen assault on the judicial branch drew an unusual rebuke from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

I ALWAYS ABIDE by the courts,” claimed President Donald Trump last month. A few weeks on, this commitment to respect judicial decisions is looking shakier. On March 15th a district-court judge ordered the Trump administration to turn around several deportation flights en route to El Salvador containing 261 migrants—most of them alleged to be members of Tren de Aragua ( T d A ),

Trump formally proclaimed that the gang has “unlawfully infiltrated the United States” and is “conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States.” It’s a stretch,