A U.S. judge on Wednesday extended his deadline for President Donald Trump's administration to provide more details about flights deporting hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, after the administration accused him of overstepping his judicial authority.
Justice Department lawyers said in an earlier court filing that Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg was improperly intruding on presidential discretion to handle sensitive diplomatic and national security matters. They asked him to delay his order that they provide more details by noon on Wednesday.
Boasberg in response extended the deadline to noon on Thursday. He also gave the administration the option of invoking the state secrets doctrine, which protects sensitive national security information from being disclosed in civil litigation, and explain why it is doing so.
