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The president’s efforts to invoke a wartime statute to deport scores of Venezuelan immigrants have set off one of the most contentious legal battles of his second term.
The filing was in response to a Supreme Court decision that let the migrants challenge efforts to deport them under a wartime law, but only in the place where they were being held.
Marcy Rheintgen said she was held in jail overnight after she deliberately challenged a state law by entering a women’s bathroom in the government building.
An attorney general in one of those states said the Trump administration was upending “the promise of progress for future generations.”
Lawyers for Venezuelan migrants asked the justices to keep in place a pause on President Trump’s deportation plan, calling it “completely at odds” with limited wartime authority given by Congress.
Incidents of travelers being denied entry into the United States in recent weeks have sparked concern over what to expect at airports and other border crossings.
The order declared that unauthorized Venezuelan immigrants who are at least 14 years old and part of the Tren de Aragua gang can be “apprehended, restrained, secured and removed.”
The lawsuit seeks to block a new rule that requires groups applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to agree not to promote “gender ideology.”
The new case, which for now is asking for a court to block the transfer of 10 men to the offshore base, is the first to directly challenge the policy.
President Trump’s order abolishing the “X” marker and recognizing only birth sex has caused confusion and anxiety for trans, intersex and gender-nonconforming travelers.