Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union argued to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Trump administration had not satisfied an “exceedingly high burden” required to override a judge’s temporary order to stop migrant deportations to a notorious Salvadoran mega prison.
Lawyers for Venezuelan migrants asked the justices to keep in place a pause on President Trump’s deportation plan, calling it “completely at odds” with limited wartime authority given by Congress.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to carry out swift deportations. The emergency application marks the first time that
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President Donald Trump's administration has increasingly turned to the use of emergency appeals to the Supreme Court as it faces more than 130 lawsuits over his executive orders.
Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to rule on his administration's push to deport Venezuelan migrants with no apparent due process.
The Trump admin urged the Supreme Court to review a freeze on its use of an 18th-century law to fast-track deportations of Venezuelans, including alleged gang members.
As Trump administration lawyers have intensified their appeals to the Supreme Court, they’re relying on recurring tropes.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Friday to lift lower court orders that stopped deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
A federal judge in Boston denied a request Tuesday to block the Trump administration's plan to end temporary protected status for Venuezuelans, noting that a judge in California had already halted the plan on Monday.