Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg this week pushed forward his fact-finding inquiry into whether Justice Department officials under the Trump administration deliberately defied his emergency order blocking the removal of more than one hundred Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador earlier this year.

Boasberg on Monday summoned former DOJ attorney-turned-leaker Erez Reuveni to testify next week on Dec. 15, saying the government’s recent declarations offer scant details about why the judge’s March instruction to halt the flights was allegedly ignored. Republican allies of President Donald Trump reacted in outrage to Boasberg’s latest move in the monthslong contempt inquiry that Boasberg has pushed since the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act in March to deport illegal alien criminals with associations to the transnational gang Tren de Aragua.