The Trump administration told a federal judge on Monday night that it would not disclose any further information about two flights of Venezuelan migrants it sent to El Salvador this month despite a court order to turn back the planesbrplay777, declaring that doing so would jeopardize state secrets.

Suddenly there is no denying the shaking, the rattling, the swaying — and one’s memory is jogged: Folded into the landscape, forever and always, is a force that no one can predict.

“Hopefully the Hellboy paintings will sell, but will people buy paintings of skeletons and ghosts, which is what I like to paint?” Mignola said. (The range of his art is reflected in projects like his next one, “Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown,” an anthology of fantasy stories inspired by folklore.) The gallery will display watercolor paintings,ijogo slots and pen-and-ink comic book covers and interior pages. Mignola gave details about some of the works in the exhibition, which opens Thursday and runs through Oct. 26.

The move sharply escalated the growing conflict between the administration and the judge — and, by extension, the federal judiciary — in a case that legal experts fear is precipitating a constitutional crisis.

For almost 10 days, the judge, James E. Boasberg of the Federal District Court in Washington, has been trying to get the Trump administration to give him information about the two flights in an effort to determine whether officials allowed them to continue on to El Salvador in violation of his order to have them return to the United States.

But in a patent act of defiance, the Justice Department told Judge Boasberg that giving him any further information about the flights — which the Trump administration maintains were carrying members of a Venezuelan street gang called Tren de Aragua — would “undermine or impede future counterterrorism operations.”

“The court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it,” the department wrote in a filing. “Further intrusions on the executive branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the court lacks competence to address.”

The state secrets privilege is a legal doctrine that can allow the executive branch to block the use of evidence in court — and sometimes shut down entire lawsuits — when it says litigating such matters in open court would risk revealing information that could damage national security.

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