The White House is denying that it violated a judge’s order Saturday to halt the deportations of Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, which, if it did occur, would take legal showdowns over the administration’s claims of vast presidential power closer to the edge of a constitutional crisis.

El Salvador's president said 238 members of Tren de Aragua had been flown to the country's notorious mega-jail.

The Trump administration deported over 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members despite a court order. The move defied a judge's decision blocking the use of wartime powers for deportations. Legal experts criticized the administration's actions as a challenge to the U.