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Supreme Court, for Now, Blocks Deportations of Venezuelan Migrants
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration early Saturday from deporting another group of Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members under the expansive powers of a rarely invoked wartime 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 court said in a brief, unsigned order that gave no reasoning, as is typical in emergency cases.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented. The White House did not issue any immediate response.
More than 50 Venezuelans were scheduled to be flown out of the country — presumably to El Salvador — from an immigration detention center in Anson, Texas, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. The A.C.L.U. in recent days had already secured court orders barring similar deportations under the law, the Alien Enemies Act, in other places including New York, Denver and Brownsville, Texas.

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Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented. A group of migrants had been scheduled to be flown out of the country, according to people familiar with the matter.
Don essentially forced the Court in to a corner. How could it allow for the deportation of more human beings when it already ruled Garcia's return must be facilitated?
The fact that the regime was on a path to doing it before it was stopped displays just how willing trump is to openly defy existing court orders.
It's making me wonder if the immunity ruling has resulted in him feeling completely unaccountable for any action he takes. As for members of the regime, they know they will be protected from prosecution by the pardon power. All of which makes for the kind of lawlessness we have seen thus far.
The judiciary's enforcement power of its rulings is essentially non-existent. It depends on the regime's respect for the constitutional order that has governed the nation since we declared our independence. Respect it has shown it does not have. Which is why this thing could really go sideways.