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‘Heckuva stretch’: Skeptical judge questions Trump’s defiance over deportation order

The federal judge who blocked Donald Trump’s deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act appeared taken aback by arguments from Department of Justice lawyers claiming that his order from the bench could be ignored because it wasn’t written down.

“You’re telling me you felt you could disregard it because it wasn’t in the written order?” an incredulous U.S. District Judge James Boasberg asked during a hearing in Washington, D.C. Monday.

Justice Department lawyers suggested that was the position of the Trump administration. He called the government’s argument a “heckuva stretch.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also appeared to make a similar argument to reporters during a briefing earlier Monday.

“There are actually questions about whether a verbal order carries the same weight as a written order,” she claimed.

The judge called a hearing to determine what exactly happened after three flights allegedly containing members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang left the United States for El Salvador on Friday night despite his verbal — and written — orders that expressly blocked them from taking off.

A timeline is crucial to determine whether the administration is openly defying the judicial branch as critics fear the president is consolidating power in the executive branch and shredding checks and balances.

After Boasberg refused the Trump administration’s request