Judge to Consider Block on Trump’s Use of Wartime Law to Deport Venezuelans
A hearing on Friday afternoon could also include some discussion about the Justice Department’s repeated recalcitrance in responding to the judge’s demands.
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A hearing on Friday afternoon could also include some discussion about the Justice Department’s repeated recalcitrance in responding to the judge’s demands.
To invoke wartime deportation powers, President Trump asserted that Venezuela’s government controls a gang. U.S. intelligence analysts think that is not true.
Officials have said most of the people sent to the U.S. base are members of a Venezuelan gang but have not offered evidence to support that claim.
The question of whether the deported Venezuelans actually have ties to Tren de Aragua could be raised at a hearing set for Friday in Federal District Court in Washington.
President Trump and state politicians are pushing new laws and policies that crack down on curriculum, protests and speakers.
It remains unclear whether the Trump administration will apply the law in this way. But such an interpretation, experts say, would infringe on basic civil liberties.
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts goes beyond what has happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, where leaders spent years remaking the judiciary.
President Trump and state politicians are pushing new laws and policies that crack down on curriculum, protests and speakers.
President Trump’s expansive interpretation of presidential power has become the defining characteristic of his second term.
Judge James Boasberg has asked the government to tell him what time two planes took off from U.S. soil and from where, what time they left U.S. airspace and what time they landed in El Salvador.