We told you yesterday that the DC Circuit Court refused to halt the order from Judge Boasberg which blocked deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act, which President Trump invoked to removed Venezuelan gang members from the country.
Now President Trump had made an appeal to the Supreme Court to get this same order halted.
Here’s more from CNN:
President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to wade into the fraught legal battle over enforcing the Alien Enemies Act, the wartime authority he used to rapidly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.The emergency appeal, which asks the justices to overturn an order from US District Judge James Boasberg blocking further deportations under the act, further thrusts the Supreme Court into Trump’s whirlwind. It is perhaps the most significant matter now pending on the court’s docket dealing with his second term and it sits at the center of an explosive confrontation between the White House and the judiciary.
“This case presents fundamental questions about who decides how to conduct sensitive national-security-related operations in this country – the President, through Article II, or the judiciary,” Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris told the Supreme Court. “The Constitution supplies a clear answer: the President. The republic cannot afford a different choice.”
Like other recent appeals, the Trump administration’s argument was heavy on complaints about lower courts standing in his way, handing down temporary orders that – while not resolving the challenges over the president’s power – have at least put some of his agenda on hold temporarily.
Five Venezuelans still in the country who are being held by the Department of Homeland Security sued the administration, challenging its use of the law. Boasberg, nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, temporarily blocked the administration from any more deportations under the act while he considers the case – either against the five who sued, or anyone else in their situation.
This really is a big deal, and hopefully the court will at least pause the decision while the case plays out in the lower courts. But I don’t have a lot of faith that will happen…
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-trump-appeals-to-supreme-court-to-halt-lower-court-ruling-on-alien-enemies-act-deportation-flights/
