Judge Boasberg, ordered Trump DOJ provide the court with more info in writing by Noon

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Judge Boasberg, in response, ordered the Justice Department to provide the court with more information in writing by Tuesday at noon.

In granting the emergency order Saturday Boasberg sided with the plaintiffs – Democracy Forward and the ACLU – who had argued that the deportations would likely pose imminent and "irreparable" harm to the migrants under the time proposed.

Judge Boasberg also ordered the Trump administration Saturday to immediately halt any planned deportations, and to notify their clients that "any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States," he said.

But the decision apparently came too late to stop a plane filled with more than 200 migrants who were deported to El Salvador.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News in an interview that a plane carrying hundreds of migrants, including more than 130 persons removed under the Alien Enemies Act, had already "left U.S. airspace" by the time the order was handed down.

She also suggested the order itself was not "lawful" and noted the Trump administration's intent to appeal.

In response, the ACLU asked the court to order the government to submit declarations, under oath, that the planes had indeed taken off after the court's order.

"Whether or not the planes had cleared U.S. territory, the U.S. retained custody at least until the planes landed and the individuals were turned over to foreign governments," the ACLU said in their filing.

Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee, at times appeared slightly incredulous that the Trump administration chose to move forward with the deportation of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador, pressing lawyers for the Justice Department over whether they believed there were better options than to comply with the decision he handed down Saturday.

"Isn’t then the better course, to return the planes to the United States and figure out what to do, than to say, ‘We don’t care, we’ll do what we want?'" he asked.

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