Trump administration projects defiance but shows compliance in courts — for now

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Rhetoric from President Donald Trump’s top aides and allies toward unfriendly judges has reached a peak, but the Department of Justice has so far maintained deference toward the courts in its filings and hearings.

The DOJ issued its most aggressive legal pushback yet on Wednesday when it argued in a motion that Judge James Boasberg’s orders were “grave encroachments” on Trump’s authority and asked for another day to weigh how to respond to them. But even in the most heated cases, the DOJ has steered clear of threatening the kind of defiance that MAGA figures have increasingly demanded.

The case Boasberg is presiding over, involving Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, has drawn the most ire from the Right. Stephen Miller, an immigration hawk and Trump’s deputy chief of staff, went on a media tear after Boasberg, an Obama…

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