The Supreme Court, working after midnight, blocked the deportation of more detained Venezuelan migrants under a 1798 wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, on Saturday.
The big picture: President Trump‘s administration is trying to deport the migrants held at Texas’ Bluebonnet Detention Center in keeping with the president’s campaign promise of mass deportations.
The latest: The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation appealed a lower court’s order to the Supreme Court Friday night, arguing that the government failed to “give members of the proposed class a realistic opportunity to contest their removal under the AEA.”
- The Supreme Court ordered the government not to deport the migrants “until further order of this court.”
- Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
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