The Trump administration is claiming it did not violate a court order by refusing to recall flights carrying Venezuelan migrants being deported to a notorious terrorist prison in El Salvador despite a judge explicitly instructing the flights to turn around . The detainees were shipped out of the U.S. with little or no due process through President Donald Trump's unprecedented use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (AEA) .

The administration defended its conduct in a five-page court filing on Tuesday, which also revealed for the first time that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem ultimately made the decision to disregard the verbal order from Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in March. The filing came in response to Boasberg's ongoing inquiry into whether the administration sho

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