The Justice Department submitted multiple filings with the Supreme Court that accused federal judges of abusing their constitutional powers, while lower courts criticized the Trump administration’s expansive view of presidential power.

The Trump administration asked the justices to allow it to use a wartime law to continue deportations of Venezuelans with little or no due process.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to wade into the fraught legal battle over enforcing the Alien Enemies Act, the wartime authority he used to rapidly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.