Trump Deportation Fight Reaches Supreme Court
The Trump administration asked the justices to allow it to use a wartime law to continue deportations of Venezuelans with little or no due process.
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The Trump administration asked the justices to allow it to use a wartime law to continue deportations of Venezuelans with little or no due process.
The tactics on display in the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk were not new — plainclothes officers, faces obscured — but as ICE actions ramp up, scrutiny may increase.
In the Trump era, the definition of an official secret depends on whatever works best for the president.
The move to disqualify the judge was emblematic of the Trump administration’s broader attacks on the federal judiciary, which in recent weeks has pushed back against executive actions.
The administration is invoking an extraordinary national security power, the state secrets privilege, under highly unusual circumstances.
President Trump has made Colorado’s third-largest city synonymous with the supposed scourge of Venezuelan gangs, but some wonder if his immigration raids are damaging the city more than the migrants ever did.
By citing the act, the administration seems to be highlighting its aggressive posture without taking steps that might be deemed to violate a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge.
Judge James E. Boasberg’s order says that the Venezuelan immigrants should have the opportunity to challenge the accusation by the Trump administration that they are members of a gang.
Judge Maryanne Trump Barry ruled that the law invoked against Mr. Khalil violated the Constitution by giving unfettered discretion to the secretary of state.
The Venezuelan government had come under intense pressure from the Trump administration to resume accepting deportation flights.