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US Supreme Court blocks Trump's use of 18th century law to deport people

The Supreme Court also made clear today that it was not blocking other ways the government may deport people.

LAST UPDATE | 16 May

THE US SUPREME Court has rejected the Trump administration’s appeal to quickly resume deportations of Venezuelans under an 18th century wartime law.

The justices heard an emergency appeal from lawyers for Venezuelan men accused of being gang members, a designation that the administration says makes them eligible for rapid removal from the United States under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798.

The court had already called a temporary halt to the deportations from a north Texas detention facility in a middle-of-the-night order issued last month.

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, two of the most conservative members of the court, dissented.

Responding with a post on his Truth Social platform, President Donald Trump said:

“THE SUPREME COURT WON’T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!”

The case is among several making their way through the courts over Trump’s proclamation in March calling the Tren de Aragua gang a foreign terrorist organisation and invoking the 1798 law to deport people.

The case centres on the opportunity people must have to contest their removal from the United States, without determining whether Trump’s invocation of the law was appropriate.

“We recognise the significance of the Government’s national security interests as well as the necessity that such interests be pursued in a manner consistent with the Constitution,” the justices said in an unsigned opinion.

At least three federal judges have said Trump was improperly using the AEA to speed up deportations of people the administration says are Venezuelan gang members.

On Tuesday, a judge in Pennsylvania signed off on the use of the law.

The court-by-court approach to deportations under the AEA flows from another Supreme Court order that took a case away from a judge in Washington DC, and ruled detainees seeking to challenge their deportations must do so where they are held.

The justices said in April that people must be given “reasonable time” to file a challenge.

The court has rejected the 12 hours the administration has said would be sufficient but has not otherwise spelled out how long it meant.

District Judge Stephanie Haines ordered immigration officials to give people 21 days in her opinion in which she said deportations could legally take place under the AEA.

The Supreme Court also made clear today that it was not blocking other ways the government may deport people.

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    Jun 16th 2022, 11:16 AM

    His SECOND ethics adviser to resign.

    When the first line of your job description is to remind an inveterate liar not to lie, you’re unlikely to be in your position for the very long…..

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    Jun 16th 2022, 12:29 PM

    Someone resigns, and as usual it isn’t Johnson.

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    Jun 16th 2022, 12:05 PM

    Bojo & ethics, don’t really go hand in hand really :). Bit of an oxymoron

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    Jun 16th 2022, 1:08 PM

    @Declan Moran: Nah, just a moron.

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    Jun 16th 2022, 2:15 PM

    @Buzz Killington: If only he was, sadly he’s a very clever but odious person.

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    Jun 16th 2022, 2:34 PM

    @Steve O’Hara-Smith: A clever but odious mor0n so…

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    Jun 16th 2022, 3:04 PM

    @Declan Moran: Or even an Oxford Moron!!!!

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    Jun 16th 2022, 1:51 PM

    Johnson heads up a cabinet of rogues and expects the accolades for holding the highest office of UK government. A government happy to break the law. A government in cahoots with the DUP. A government of shady deals. Without principle. Without honesty. Working to benefit themselves and the tax evasion party they have taken over. When will the working people of England and Wales come to their senses and kick these racketeers out of government?

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    Jun 16th 2022, 2:31 PM

    @Niall O’Reilly: the General public in England are deluded. I live here and honestly the rubbish they believe is insane. They think brexit and the tories will bring back mass manufacturing to England and that they will produce all their own goods. All the while the tories are tearing apart what’s left of the manufacturing and slowly privatise the NHS.
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    Jun 16th 2022, 3:40 PM

    @Aaron Tynan: — The propaganda machine is the only thing that’s working over there, and has been fully operational since before the referendum. Everyone I know over there voted for Brexit, and one of them who works in the NHS voted Brexit because she was convinced that the EU was going to destroy the NHS. I pointed out to her, after she voted, that people in the know had already named the people who were out to destroy the NHS, and that those people were members of the Tory Party, and that the EU had no intention of bringing the NHS to its knees. All in all, they think Johnson’s a great fella altogether, and don’t seem to realise that he despises most of the “converts” who decided to vote Tory after decades of voting Labour.

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