Trump administration briefing: judge incredulous at deportations defense; Doge workers break into building

White House denies violating judge's order with Venezuela flights; Elon Musk's Doge workers break into non-government agency - key US politics stories from Monday at a glance

The Trump administration claimed to a federal judge on Monday that it did not turn around the deportation flights of hundreds of suspected Venezuelan gang members over the weekend despite his specific instructions because that was not expressly included in the formal written order.

The administration also said that even if James Boasberg, the chief US district judge in Washington, had included that instruction in his formal order, his authority to compel the planes to return disappeared the moment the planes entered international airspace.