President Donald Trump's administration accused a federal judge on Wednesday of overstepping his judicial authority in demanding more details about flights deporting hundreds of Venezuelan migrants in an escalating confrontation between the executive and judicial branches of the U.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued an order Saturday blocking the deportations, but lawyers told him there were already two planes with immigrants

President Trump's administration is at loggerheads with a federal judge over the deportation of Venezuelan migrants. Judge Boasberg has temporarily blocked the deportations, claiming Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act is unwarranted.