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Justice Department lawyers defend the Trump administration's actions in court Monday

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Judge James Boasberg issued a verbal order Saturday that planes being used to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act be immediately returned to the United States .

On Monday , Justice Department lawyers said they didn’t consider the judge’s verbal order to be operative — and argued that a written, paragraph-long “minute order” later entered in the court docket superseded it.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele , a Trump ally, mockingly wrote “ Oopsie... Too late ” in reference to Boasberg ’s order.

Without due process, there's no way to know whether deportees were Venezuelan gang members or asylum-seekers or migrants who were not gang members.