The Trump administration has asked a federal judge to dissolve the orders he put in place this weekend barring it from deporting people suspected of belonging to a Venezuelan street gang from the country under a rarely invoked wartime statute called the Alien Enemies Act.

The Justice Department also doubled down on its efforts to avoid giving the judge, James E. Boasberg, the detailed information he had requested about the deportations. It complied — but only in part — with his instructions to provide specific data about when two flights, with the people accused of being gang members, took off from the United States for El Salvador.

Taken together, the twin moves — made in separate sets of court papers filed Monday and Tuesday — marked a continuation of the Trump’s administration’s aggressive attempts to push back against Boasberg, the chief judge of U.S. District Court in Washington, who temporarily halted one of President Donald Trump’s signature deportation policies.

The Justice Department has now effectively opened up two fronts in the battle: one challenging the underlying orders that paused, for now, the deportation flights altogether and another seeking to avoid disclosing any information about two flights this past weekend that could indicate they took place after the judge’s orders.

In court papers filed Tuesday, lawyers for the Justice Department asserted, as they already have in court, that the two flights left the United States with immigrants removed under the Alien Enemies Act before a written order by Boasberg was formally placed on the docket at 7:25 p.m. Saturday.

But the lawyers refused — again — to tell the judge precisely when the flights took off, leaving unanswered the question of whether they departed after he had issued a similar oral ruling that day.

The department lawyers said that providing such details about timing would be “inappropriate” because they claim that the administration had not violated the judge’s order.

At the same time, the lawyers said that if Boasberg wanted more information, they would provide it in a private setting.

Boasberg on Tuesday ordered the Justice Department to send him a sealed declaration by today at noon detailing the times the planes took off, left U.S. airspace and landed.