The Supreme Court just overwhelmingly blocked President Trump from deporting Venezuelans from the US using the Alien Enemies Act. The order was unsigned, but we know who the 2 justices who approved the use of AEA were because they dissented: Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
Here’s more from CBS News:
The Supreme Court on Friday said it will continue to block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan men detained in northern Texas while they pursue a challenge to their removals under the wartime Alien Enemies Act.
The order from the high court grants an emergency injunction sought by lawyers for a group of Venezuelan migrants who they said faced “imminent” risk of removal under President Trump’s March proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. It maintains an early directive issued by the Supreme Court last month that temporarily prohibited the government from removing the Venezuelan migrants held at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, under the 18th-century law.
The Supreme Court’s April order, issued overnight, blocked the deportations “until further order of this court.”
Friday’s order was unsigned, and two justices dissented: Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
And more from taxpayer funded Politico:
The court emphasized that the men — whom the Trump administration has labeled “alien enemies” — are entitled to more due process than the administration has so far provided. That means advance notice of their deportations and a meaningful opportunity to challenge the deportations in court, the justices wrote in an unsigned opinion.
In particular, the justices faulted the administration for its attempt last month to carry out swift deportations just one day after providing a bare-bones deportation notice to the detainees. The Supreme Court intervened at the time to stop those deportations, and in Friday’s decision, the court elaborated on its decision and extended its order blocking them.
It sounds like this is for these specific Venezuelan gangbangers in northern Texas, but I guess that means they will block any other deportations under the AEA as well
Ugh.