The Supreme Court said the U.S. government could use 18th-century laws to deport immigrants.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to use 18th-century wartime laws to expel Venezuelan immigrants, but said they had to hold a court hearing before taking them away from the United States.
The court said in a seriously divided decision that the government must give Venezuelans “reasonable time” to court as gang members.
But a conservative majority said the legal challenges must be held in Texas, not in Washington court.
In the objection, three liberal judges said the government tried to avoid scrutinizing judicial review in such a situation, and the court “rewards the government’s actions now.” Judge Amy Coney Barrett joined the objection.
The judges acted on the government’s emergency appeal after the federal appeals court in Washington temporarily banned the deportation of immigrants accused of becoming a rare-used gang member (AEA).
In its unsigned comment, the court wrote: “Decided people have been subject to a revocation order under the AEA, entitled to notify and have the opportunity to challenge their evacuation. ”
Continuously increasing tension
The case has become a flashpoint as tensions between the White House and the federal court continue to rise.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi called the court’s ruling “a landmark victory of the rule of law.”
“A radical judge in Washington, D.C. has no jurisdiction to control President Trump’s power to enforce foreign policy and ensure the safety of the American people,” Bondy wrote in a social media post.
The initial order to block deportation was issued by James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the Federal Court Building in Washington.
U.S. President Donald Trump has invoked the Alien Enemy Act for the first time since World War II to prove that hundreds of people were deported under the president’s declaration, saying the Tren de Aragua gang was an invading force.
Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in Texas on behalf of five Venezuelan non-citizens, hours after the announcement was made public, as hundreds of immigrants from immigration authorities came to wait for the plane.
Boasberg temporarily stopped deportation and ordered parallel loads of Venezuelan immigrants to return to the United States where no occurrence. The judge held a hearing last week on whether the government violated the order to reverse the plane. The government invoked the “state secret privilege” and refused to provide Boasberg with any other information about deportation.
Trump and his allies called for boasberg. “Impotence is an appropriate response to the differences in judicial decisions,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in a rare statement.
