U.S. Supreme Court suspends deportation of Venezuelan immigrants under wartime law
The U.S. Supreme Court suspended President Donald Trump’s administration earlier Saturday as lawyers said they were in danger of dismissal without the judicial review previously requested by the judiciary.
The judges said in a brief, unsigned ruling: “The government was instructed not to evacuate any presumptive detainee class members from the United States until further orders of this court.”
Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito publicly opposed the decision, which was released around 12:55 a.m. ET.
Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed urgent requests on Friday in multiple courts, including the Supreme Court, urging immediate action after some people had been loaded onto buses and were told they would be deported.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said that rapid development means the government is expected to use the 1798 law to expel these people (historically, the law was only employed in wartime) without providing them with a realistic opportunity to dismiss them as the Supreme Court required.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Supreme Court ruling.
The prospect of the constitutional crisis
The case raised questions Regarding the Trump administration’s compliance with restrictions set by the Supreme Court. It poses the risk of major conflicts between two equal branches of government and the possibility of a mature constitutional crisis.
Trump, elected last year, pledged to crack down on immigration, invoked the Alien Enemy Act of 1798, in an attempt to quickly deport accused member Tren de Aragua, a criminal gang in a Venezuelan prison whose government marked the terrorist group.
The law was last used to detain non-citizens of Japanese, German and Italian descent during World War II.
The president and his senior aides asserted that their executive powers gave them a broad power for immigration matters, testing the balance of power between government branches.
At a hearing Friday, a government lawyer said in a case that he was not aware of his national security ministry’s plan to deport the people that day, but could be deported on Saturday.
Trump won a victory when his appeals court was threatened by contempt allegations by District Court Judge James Boasberg.
Boasberg also denied the ACLU request to prevent Trump from expelling alleged members of Tren de Aragua, citing an April 7 Supreme Court ruling that allowed Trump to use the Alien Enemy Act, despite some restrictions.
Boasberg said he was worried that the government would immediately expel more people on Saturday, but that was “at this point, I just don’t think I can do anything.”
Trump had previously called on Boasberg to impeach each after an adverse ruling, prompting Chief Justice John Roberts to condemn it in a rare manner.
When a hearing was played in Boasberg’s court, the ACLU worked on another track to prevent the deportation of Venezuelans in Texas.
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ACLU lawyers filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court after they did not receive a quick response from early documents on Friday – in lawsuits by U.S. District Judge James Hendrix in Abilene, Texas, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for New Orleans to prevent any such deportation.
In Saturday’s order, the Supreme Court invited the government to respond to the ACLU’s request after the Fifth Circuit made it.
ACLU says the form shows that men are gang members
The ACLU said the people had been submitted to indicate that they were classified as members of Tren de Aragua.
In dispute, whether the Trump administration meets the standards of the Supreme Court to provide due process for detainees before sending them to another country—probably El Salvador’s notorious prison, while others are jailed by others.
It is unclear how many people were deported and likely to be deported on Friday.
The ACLU filed a photo of one of the notices to the court.
“You have been identified as an alien enemy who has been arrested, restrained and removed from office,” the notice said. The recipient’s name was covered, noting that the immigrant refused to sign on Friday.
Trump supports severing “bad guys”
When asked about the planned deportation, Trump said he was not familiar with the case, but added: “If they were bad people, I would definitely authorize it.”
He told reporters at the White House: “That’s why I was elected.
Congressional defense attorneys and Democrats urged the government to demonstrate how it knew that Venezuelans were members of the gang, which was active in South America human trafficking and other crimes, but smaller in the United States existed.
“We will not disclose details of the counter-terrorism operation, but we comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling,” Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Friday.
On March 15, the Trump administration expelled more than 130 members of Tren de Aragua to El Salvador. Many immigrant lawyers and families say they are not members of the gang and have no chance to object to the government’s claims.
