The list of Federeal Judges against the Trump admin use of the old law increases….
The judges have stoppe giving countrywide stops following the Supreme’s casting doubt on such wide judgements…The judges decisions are for within their jurisdiction ‘s….
Hellerstein is among several judges who have determined that the administration’s use of the act for the expulsion of migrants is based on an illegal interpretation of the law and that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority.
Also Tuesday, a district judge in Colorado granted a preliminary injunction after initially issuing a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act in her judicial district….
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Several courts have since criticized the removals, and investigations by The Washington Post and others have since shown that many of those who disappeared into the prison had no criminal records, and that some were in the United States legally and were actively complying with immigration rules.
“The court joined several others in correctly recognizing the president cannot simply declare that there’s been an invasion and then invoke a wartime authority during peacetime to send individuals to a Gulag-type prison in El Salvador without even giving them due process,” American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt said in a statement. Gelernt argued on behalf of the immigrants in New York who are plaintiffs in the case….
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Congress passed the Alien Enemies Act in 1798, as war with France loomed, to enable the United States to swiftly remove foreigners who might pose a threat to national security. It has only been invoked three times, and always during a military conflict, most recently during World War II.
Trump and his surrogates have sought to cast the millions of migrants who have arrived at the southern border in recent years seeking refuge or to work as an “invasion,” and said he had to invoke the act to quickly remove those who may pose a threat to public safety….
Joyce White Vance
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Abrego Garcia’s lawyers filed a motion today and it could lead to a deposition in the White House. Read about it here and be up to date. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan…