The Trump administration told a federal judge Tuesday that it should not have to provide information on the timing of flights that carried migrants for deportation, amid an accusation the executive branch defied a court order to halt the planes.
In a three-page filing, the Justice Department said Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has no grounds for requiring the U.S. government to share that information.
“The Government maintains that there is no justification to order the provision of additional information, and that doing so would be inappropriate, because even accepting Plaintiffs’ account of the facts, there was no violation of the Court’s written order (since the relevant flights left U.S. airspace, and so their occupants were ‘removed,’ before the order issued), and the Court’s earlier oral statements were not independently enforceable as injunctions,” the filing says.
