The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Deportations Is Not a Free Pass
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After the Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling Monday lifting a temporary block on the United States’ deportation of Venezuelan migrants, Trump administration officials were positively giddy.
“SCOTUS confirms our Commander-in-Chief Donald J. Trump has the power to stop the invasion of our country by terrorists using war time powers,” Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi calls wrote on X.
The only problem with Noem’s post? That's not what the Supreme Court said.
First, some background: The case before the court concerns the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act—a 1798 wartime law—to justify deporting Venezuelan migrants who the United States government has accused of being members of the gang Tren de Agua. This is the law that the U.S. used to fly 238 men, without due process and, in many cases, with slim evidence, to...
