Rhetoric from President Donald Trump’s top aides and allies toward unfriendly judges has reached a peak, but the Department of Justice has so far maintained deference toward the courts in its filings and hearings.

The DOJ issued its most aggressive legal pushback yet on Wednesday when it argued in a motion that Judge James Boasberg’s orders were “grave encroachments” on Trump’s authority and asked for another day to weigh how to respond to them. But even in the most heated cases, the DOJ has steered clear of threatening the kind of defiance that MAGA figures have increasingly demanded.