A federal judge will come face-to-face with Justice Department attorneys Friday in the wake of President Donald Trump’s call for his impeachment over how the jurist has handled a challenge to Trump’s use of a sweeping wartime authority to quickly deport some noncitizens.

DOJ attorneys replied on Thursday to Judge James Boasberg's questions about flights that deported migrants to Venezuela last weekend.

A federal judge chastised a Justice Department attorney Friday, expressing doubt about the legality of the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act. U.S. District Judge James

The federal judge says the government has so far provided “woefully insufficient” information about three deportation flights to El Salvador.

Judge James Boasberg started off the hearing by telling Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign that, in filings over the course of this week, there had been “disrespectful, intemperate language” of a sort he had “never seen from the United States.”

A federal judge in Washington said Friday that President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to summarily deport alleged Venezuelan gang members is “incredibly troublesome and problematic” as he considers the government’s case to end his restraining order blocking their removals.