Supreme Court halts latest wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations, for now

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 Supreme Court halts latest wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations, for now
by Zach Schonfeld - 04/19/25 6:32 AM ET

The Supreme Court early Saturday halted the administration’s ability to use the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport migrants to El Salvador who are being detained in portions of Texas, for now.

The emergency order temporarily blocks the deportations until the high court resolves the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) emergency appeal, which was filed hours earlier over concerns that more deportation flights were imminent.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, two of the court’s leading conservatives, dissented.   

The ACLU simultaneously asked several courts to immediately intervene Friday, warning that the Venezuelan migrants could otherwise be given life sentences in a notorious Salvadoran megaprison without the opportunity for judicial review.

“The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court,” the Supreme Court’s order reads.

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5256983-supreme-court-halts-alien-enemies-act-deportations/

[Right_in_Virginia]

The great American experiment ends here.

[DCPatriot]

The great American experiment ends here.

And with a GOP nominated SCOTUS majority, too!   

[Right_in_Virginia]

And with a GOP nominated SCOTUS majority, too!   

Yup @DCPatriot

In one emergency ruling issued in the dead of night, the Supreme Court made moot existing law, castrated the Executive Branch, tore up the separation of powers and pissed on 77 million voting Americans in favor of the anti-America mob.

There's no recovery from this because we've lost --- with the highest Court's support and encouragement --- the rule of law.

" The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court,”  the Supreme Court’s order reads.

[Free Vulcan]

I wonder why the ACLU gets a special dispensation for an emergency appeal.

[Right_in_Virginia]

https://twitter.com/DavidMitch125/status/1913618114891096488

[Right_in_Virginia]

https://twitter.com/ArielDelra4225/status/1913619006302363916

[Bigun]

"Each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action...."

Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority."

James Madison

“No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with the accumulation of power, or with a mixture of powers, having a dangerous tendency to such an accumulation, no further arguments would be necessary to inspire a universal reprobation of the system. I persuade myself, however, that it will be made apparent to everyone that the charge cannot be supported, and that the maxim on which it relies has been totally misconceived and misapplied. In order to form correct ideas on this important subject, it will be proper to investigate the sense in which the preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct.”

Federalist #47 [James Madison]

[Bigun]

The great American experiment ends here.

Only if the president allows it. @Right_in_Virginia

[Right_in_Virginia]

Only if the president allows it. @Right_in_Virginia

Here comes the third impeachment @Bigun

[Right_in_Virginia]

https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1913551314161656077

[Right_in_Virginia]

https://twitter.com/cfdalton1/status/1913553252685140297

[Right_in_Virginia]

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1913632038046871987

[MeganC]

Judicial tyranny.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

The great American experiment ends here.

When the unelected branch of government supersedes the two elected branches, there is no freedom and no Republic.

It is dictatorship as there is no representation by the people.

[Sighlass]

I wonder why the ACLU gets a special dispensation for an emergency appeal.

Exactly, how does an ultra-leftist anti-American group have a brake pedal that extended to the SCOTUS?

[Bigun]

Judicial tyranny.

Precisely! Just as Madison warned us about.

[DCPatriot]

THIS...is what happens when the Deep State intelligence
agencies are able to eavesdrop on your phone calls, emails and internet searches.

Soon, you get a knock at your front door from 2 Men wearing Black suits, Fedoras and aviators threatening the lives of your children.


THIS......is what happens when you nominate women who won't articulate what a woman is!

F**king Alexa

[Bigun]

https://twitter.com/JohnStrandUSA/status/1913579584198512994

[Hoodat]

The ACLU simultaneously asked several courts to immediately intervene Friday, warning that the Venezuelan migrants could otherwise be given life sentences in a notorious Salvadoran megaprison without the opportunity for judicial review.

Not our problem.  If they didn't want to be deported to El Salvador, then they shouldn't have entered the US illegally and forfeited the due process of asylum through their own actions (or lack thereof).

If Bill Clinton can send Elian Gonzales back to Cuba without even granting him an asylum hearing, then Donald Trump can damn sure deport anyone entering the country illegally and allowing the asylum limitation statute expire.

[Hoodat]

John Strand
@JohnStrandUSA

BREAKING: the U.S. Supreme Court has contradicted itself—acknowledging “judicial review” doesn’t apply to a President executing Article II power under AEA

This is often the pitfall of making it up as you go.  Stick to the written law, and you won't embarrass yourself like this.

[Hoodat]

I wonder why the ACLU gets a special dispensation for an emergency appeal.

A professional courtesy granted to former ACLU head Ruth Bader Ginsberg that has now become a judicial standard.

(Fun fact:  During her 17 years on the USSC, Justice Ginsberg did not recuse herself of a single case brought before the Court by the Anti Christ Lawyers' Union.)

[Hoodat]

The Supreme Court early Saturday halted the administration’s ability to use the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport migrants to El Salvador who are being detained in portions of Texas, for now.

The emergency order temporarily blocks the deportations until the high court resolves the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) emergency appeal, which was filed hours earlier over concerns that more deportation flights were imminent.

So here's what the Trump Administration needs to do.  Charge every one of these 'migrants' with entering the country illegally, deny bail, and contract out across the country for prosecutors to try these cases.  Once tried and convicted, contract with El Salvador to incarcerate our federal convicts for us.  This can all be done while the courts decide whether it is ok or not to deport them now.

[Fishrrman]

Right in Virginia posted:
"The great American experiment ends here."

And Bigun replied:
"Only if the president allows it."

Why am I the ONLY ONE in this forum stating what must be done?
It is not the prerogative of the Courts -- including the U.S. Supreme Court -- to set their limits. Any court, anywhere, given this authority will in time exceed all reasonable limits upon such authority.

It's the job of the President to declare what those limits (upon Executive discretion) will be, subject to the assention of the Congress, or their silence, or other actions.

Once again, I repost:
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There needs to be proclaimed (yes, proclaimed) "The Trump Doctrine" on the relationship between the Executive and the Judiciary.

It must re-define how much power the federal courts have to exercise against the president and his powers.

No individual federal judge anywhere should have the power to overturn executive action.
At the district court level, when and where federal/nationwide policies are impacted, judges should have no more power other than to issue an opinion (strictly an "opinion", not a "ruling").

It will be up to the president as to whether to accept or reject such an opinion.

If rejected, then it can be appealed upwards to the next level. The president should declare in his proclamation that only a judgment by the full appellate court (NOT a 3-judge panel) will be binding -- and ONLY within the confines of that district -- AGAIN, IF the president chooses to accept the ruling.

And after that, we're left with the U.S. Supreme Court. Of course, this is going to carry more weight, but I've come to the (very personal) conclusion that even the 9 justices in their black robes should not be entrusted to dictate final decisions before the American people.

Rather, in matters of national social and cultural importance, any U.S. Supreme Court decision should be "annullable-cancelable" by a vote of the U.S. Congress and Senate.
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So... Bigun... DC Patriot... RinVA... if you're reading this, what say you to it?

Marbury v. Madison was a MISTAKE.
It should never have been permitted to stand.
That can be fixed, if Mr. Trump has the will and intestinal fortitude to do so.

[MeganC]

Why am I the ONLY ONE in this forum stating what must be done?

Two hundred and fifty years ago today our Founders took up arms and went to war against their legal and sovereign government. By force of arms and at a price in blood they overthrew their rulers and instituted the best possible system of governance in human history.

We are losing that legacy and we lose it with every jackass who insists that no matter how absurd or even patently illegal that all court orders must be slavishly obeyed. 

As someone once said on Free Republic the Holocaust was perfectly legal. And it was! Laws were passed enabling this atrocity and courts upheld it when they didn't ignore it outright.

The government behind that atrocity perished in fire and blood. As it deserved to.

Many of its leaders were hung at the end of a rope. As they deserved to.

Many of its minions perished in firing squads. As they deserved to.

The same fate should likewise await those who would usurp our system of governance and replace it with unelected bureaucrats, clever lawyers in black robes, and criminals who conspire and whisper against liberty from the shadows.

Must we wait for things to get as bad as they did for the Jews in Germany?

A quote:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956