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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The ACLU wants a federal judge to force the Trump

administration to state under oath whether it violated a judge's order temporarily barring deportations.

Legal alert with the ACLU's Immigrants Rights Project says after the administration used an 18th century wartime law to fly more

than 200 people, including suspected Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, they want answers.

On the larger picture of whether the Alien Enemies Act is being used properly, absolutely not.

Congress could not have been clear in the statute that it has to be a foreign government or nation

invading or in a

declared war with the U.S. fundamentally, this is about separation of powers and the Trump administration

thumbing their nose at Congress and the courts. The administration, meanwhile, says when the judge

issued the order to end the deportations, the individuals were already outside the U.S.

Here's White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovett.

All of the planes that were subject to the written order, the judge's written order, took off before the order was entered in the courtroom on Saturday.

And the administration will, of course, be happily answering all of those questions that

the judge poses in court later today.

That hearing getting underway at this hour.

President Trump says he intends to speak to Russian president, Vladimir Putin tomorrow.

The discussion between the two world leaders comes as Trump continues to push for an end of Russia's war against Ukraine,

something viewed by many as an opportunity for Trump to continue his moves to

reorient U.S. foreign policy. Trump told reporters, flying on Air Force One about the plan meeting.

Part of the conversation about ending the war is expected to focus on land and power plants.

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