The Trump Administration appeared to openly defy multiple court orders over the weekend involving deportations of hundreds of people.

The Trump administration’s removal of more than 130 Venezuelans amid a court battle to block their deportation has ignited alarm it may have violated a court order barring its use of the Alien Enemies Act.

The White House is denying that it violated a judge’s order Saturday to halt the deportations of Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, which, if it did occur, would take legal showdowns over the administration’s claims of vast presidential power closer to the edge of a constitutional crisis.

Trump administration rebuffs claims of defying judge’s ruling to halt deportations as legal battles over presidential authority intensify - Anadolu Ajansı

By Nathan Layne, Jack Queen and Helen Coster The Trump administration has deported alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the U.S. despite a court order forbidding it from doing so, saying in an extraordinary statement that a judge did not have the authority to block its actions.

The Trump administration has invoked a 227-year-old law, the Alien Enemies Act, to target Tren de Aragua, a gang with its roots in the prisons of Venezuela. Who are they and how wide is their reach?

Trump labeled the Tren de Aragua an invading force on Saturday when he invoked the Alien Enemies Act , a little-used authority from 1798 that allows the president to deport any noncitizen during wartime.