President Donald Trump’s administration’s response to a judicial request for more details on timing of deportation flights carrying hundreds of Venezuelan migrants was “woefully insufficient,” a judge said on Thursday, accusing officials of evading their responsibilities under an order he issued.

Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is weighing whether administration officials violated his March 15 order intended to temporarily block the expulsions. In a new order on Thursday, the judge told Justice Department officials to explain by next Tuesday why the administration’s failure to bring the deported migrants back to the United States did not violate his order.

Boasberg’s order on Thursday escalates his dispute with the administration that has raised concerns among Trump critics and some legal experts about a potentially looming constitutional crisis if the administration defies judicial decisions.

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    They order those in charge to bring the detainees back immediately, and if they don’t do it, the judges dispatch the US Marshalls to arrest them.

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      US Marshal Office is part of DoJ that runs under executive.

      They gonna arrest their bosses boss? Or even defy orders from their own chain-of-command? How do you think that will turn out?

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          Do you know what a deputy is?

          Deputies cannot have any more authority than their deputor…depututor …deputizer…you know what I’m trying to say.

          Sherrifs and bailiffs authority outside the courtroom is essentially no more than serving papers, which will immediately be tossed.

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        That’s the question. That’s when we find out whether a constitutional crisis is the order of the day.