Monday, March 17, 2025
Trump White House Tests Supreme Court Loyalty With Increasingly Crackpot Legal Arguments
- They didn't actually set out to defy a court order. "We wanted them on the ground first, before a judge could get the case, but this is how it worked out," said the official.
‘Too Late’: Trump Deports Hundreds in Bizarre Video After Judge Orders Pause
President Donald Trump‘s administration transferred more than 200 migrants to the custody of El Salvador early Sunday in a chilling video posted online just hours after a judge temporarily blocked the deportations.
The timeline: The president signed the executive order invoking the Alien Enemies Act on Friday night, but intentionally did not advertise it. On Saturday morning, word of the order leaked, officials said, prompting a mad scramble to get planes in the air.
- At 2:31 p.m. Saturday, an immigration activist who tracks deportation flights, posted on X that "TWO HIGHLY UNUSUAL ICE flights" were departing from Texas to El Salvador, which had agreed to accept Venezuelan gang members deported from the U.S.
- Hours later, during a court hearing filed by the ACLU., Boasberg ordered a halt to the deportations and said any flights should be turned around mid-air.
- "This is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately," he told the Justice Department, according to the Washington Post.
- At that point, about 6:51 p.m., both flights were off the Yucatan Peninsula, according to flight paths posted on X.
Yes, but: The Trump administration was already spoiling for a fight over the Alien Enemies Act — one of several fronts on which they believe legal challenges to the president's authority will only end up strengthening it when the Supreme Court rules in his favor.
Trump declares the US is 'at war' in terrifying seven-word statement about alien enemies | Irish Star ||Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Trump declares the US is 'at war' in terrifying seven-word statement about alien enemies
President Donald Trump has declared that the US is "at war" with certain immigrants in the US.
While aboard Air Force One, a reporter asked him about the criticism to his invoking of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
- The reporter said it "has only been invoked 3 other times" and "they were all during times or war."
The rarely-used act allows the president to order the detention and deportation of natives or citizens of an "enemy" nation without following the usual processes. This is the first time the Alien Enemies Act has been invoked since World War II.
He continued aboard Air Force One: "Biden allowed millions of people, many of them criminals, many of them at the highest level... Other nations emptied their jails out into the United States. That's an invasion, and these are criminals, many, many criminals, murderers, drug dealers at the highest level, drug lords, people from mental institutions."
- "In that sense, this is war," he said.
- Trump added that this scenario is "more dangerous than war," saying soldiers wear uniforms so they know who they're fighting.
Upon making his proclamation Saturday, he stated: "To expedite removals of trendy Paraguay and other savage gangs like MS-13, which is equally vicious, I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798."
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