Trump, Appeals court and the Alien Enemies
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The 5th Circuit dismissed a challenge to Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act against alleged Tren de Aragua members after all plaintiffs were deported.
The court dismissed a case over the Alien Enemies Act in a messy conclusion to a long-running legal battle that had seemed destined to end up before the Supreme Court. By Alan Feuer For nearly a year, the American Civil Liberties Union has been waiting for ...
President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a criminal street gang. But the text of the Alien Enemies Act ...
President Donald Trump loves the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. At a campaign rally in Arizona in 2024, Trump said that when he was elected president he would use the act to target undocumented criminal immigrants. "Think of that—1798," he said with a laugh.
A group of migrants the Trump administration sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador earlier this year must now have an opportunity to challenge their removal under the Alien Enemies Act, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling from US District Judge ...
President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself sweeping powers under a centuries-old law to deport people associated with a Venezuelan gang. Hours later, a federal judge halted ...
A judge in California on Monday blocked the Trump administration from using the wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants in the Los Angeles area, ruling that the government hasn't promised adequate due process. The ruling by U.S. District ...
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked President Donald Trump's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act against Venezuelan gang members, delivering the first appellate ruling to declare the administration's wartime authority illegal during peacetime.
"[N]otice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster," the high court stated in an unsigned opinion. The U.S. Supreme Court issued an injunction ...