SCOTUS swings way left — BLOCKS migrant deportations

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked Donald Trump from deporting alleged Venezuelan gangsters being held in Texas.

In a brief order made in the early hours of Saturday, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove the Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center ‘until further order of this court.’ 

Two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented.

The high court acted in an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) contending that immigration authorities appeared to be moving to restart removals under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

The Supreme Court said earlier this month that deportations could proceed only if those about to be removed had a chance to argue their case in court and were given ‘a reasonable time’ to contest their pending removals

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