The High Court went 7-2 on ordering the Trump Admin to STOP to any new exports of migrants by the US Govt. under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act…
(The wording IS DIRECT and unarguable)
A federal Judge, and Appeals court had ordered the Trump people to ‘facilitate‘ the return of one person, who the Trump Admin had tried to sell as a gang member , they actually KNEW was NOT….
This effort reach for ANY means to satisfy Trump’s Migrants are BAD people and Stephen M iller’s aversion to anyone NOT true and TRUE American HAD to end up in the lap of the Supreme Court….
We’ll see how Trump handles this, which is temporary ….
But the court REALLY has no choice…..
To allow this permanently?
(They have ruled that the ACT REQUIRES those effect the ‘Right’ to seek legal redress in the courts….Something that Trump/Miller REFUSE to Do)
Will be a give away of just about any stop AN YONE will have against Trump and Miller making up reason to keep their ‘ethnic cleansing’ effort from getting bigger and wider unchecked….
Congress belongs to Trump and they are afraid to cross him….
Which has give Trump a free pass to disregard them….
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration early Saturday from deporting another group of Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members under the expansive powers of a rarely invoked wartime law.
“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,” the court said in a brief, unsigned order that gave no reasoning, as is typical in emergency cases.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented. The White House did not issue any immediate response.
More than 50 Venezuelans were scheduled to be flown out of the country — presumably to El Salvador — from an immigration detention center in Anson, Texas, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. The American Civil Liberties Union in recent days had already secured court orders barring similar deportations under the law, the Alien Enemies Act, in other places including New York, Denver and Brownsville, Texas….
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“These men were close to spending their lives in a horrific foreign prison without ever having had any due process,” Lee Gelernt, the lead A.C.L.U. attorney on the case, said on Saturday. “The case has a long way to go. But for now, we are relieved that the court has not allowed the Trump administration to hurry them away in secret.”
Immigration lawyers have been playing a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the federal government since President Trump issued a proclamation last month invoking the Alien Enemies Act as a way to deport immigrants he claims are members of Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan street gang. The law, which was passed in 1798, has been used only three times before in U.S. history, during periods of declared war….
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There is a history here: In mid-March, during the first hearing to consider the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, Judge Boasberg ordered Trump officials to pause all of the deportation flights it had sent out under the act. But despite his instructions, two planes left Texas and landed in El Salvador. A third plane from Texas holding people whose deportations were not under the act also arrived in El Salvador. In all, more than 200 deportees were stranded in prison there.
Judge Boasberg is now considering opening a contempt investigation into whether the administration violated his order, although an appeals court temporarily put that plan on hold on Friday night. Still, he declined on Friday night to issue a new order stopping deportation flights from northern Texas in part because of jurisdictional concerns that other courts were already mulling the same question….
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Among those at the Bluebonnet detention center that the A.C.L.U. is seeking to protect from deportation is a 19-year-old known as Y.S.M.
Y.S.M., court papers say, was arrested by immigration agents on March 14 and was sent to the Bluebonnet facility this week. When the agents initially questioned him, court papers say, they told him that a photograph on Facebook showing him in the presence of another person holding a gun proved he was a member of Tren de Aragua.
But according to his lawyer, Y.S.M. informed the agents that what they believed to be a gun was actually a water pistol.
A spokeswoman for the president of El Salvador, Wendy Ramos, did not respond to a request for confirmation of an upcoming flight.
Since March 15, the Trump administration has sent five flights carrying deportees to El Salvador under a deal with its president, Nayib Bukele, to hold detainees deemed by U.S. authorities to be part of criminal gangs in his country’s prison system, for a fee….
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In the linked piece we get a hint at why the President of El Salvador was so agreeable to taking dentine’s form America….
He’s getting paid….
His Foreign Aid wasn’t cut…….
Joyce Vance give’s a rundown of the Trump/Miller Dention landscape…..
The Trump administration wants a confrontation with the courts. Trump wants to try to break them.
That’s an essential path forward for a dictator. Like Trump’s new buddy, Nayib Bukele, whose government removed all of the Supreme Court Justices in El Salvador when they stood in his way and replaced them with more compliant ones. Or in Hungary, under Viktor Orbán, where the independence of the judiciary has been seriously compromised.
It’s time for people to stop pretending that it isn’t happening. Trump is trying to break the government. To control all its levers, he needs a complicit judiciary to go along with a complacent Congress. To understand the big picture, we need to spend some time in the weeds, examining the different deportation cases. There are so many of them that they turn into a jumble if we aren’t careful to parse them, which is our job for tonight. This is our roadmap to the most important deportation cases at the moment…
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Next week, it’s likely that we’ll see the ACLU or other lawyers try to get classes approved in each of the 94 federal districts. If successful, that will prevent more sleight-of-hand by the government. Otherwise, courts and counsel will have to keep playing whack-a-mole, trying to stay ahead of the government every time it pops up with plans to deport people out of a new district where there is no injunction. The Solicitor General has already filed a Kafkaesque brief with the Supreme Court, suggesting that Court can’t rule until the district court and court of appeals have plenty of time to rule, as though unaware that the government was attempting to pull another fast one here.
I’m tempted to point out that the Supreme Court brought this upon itself, with the ruling in J.G.G., but that would be petty on my part.
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A VERY GOOD common sense technical piece on the actions of the Court in protecting ITSELF and dealing with the situation Trump/Miller has put it in….
144. The Supreme Court’s Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
STEVE VLADECK
Alito reponds to the other Supreme’s NOT waiting for him on the emergency deportation decision……
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito faulted his colleagues for temporarily halting deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act “literally in the middle of the night.”
Alito’s dissent, also sent out at nearly midnight Saturday, came after the court agreed in the early hours of the morning to block for now any additional flights that would transport migrants to a Salvadoran prison….
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“I refused to join the Court’s order because we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.”…
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