The Supreme Court defended the temporary block in the deportation of the Trump alien enemy law

The Supreme Court defended the temporary block in the deportation of the Trump alien enemy law

Supreme Court, in 7-2 rulingExpanding his orders which temporarily prohibits Trump’s government from eliminating Venezuelan immigrants from the United States under the proclamation of the Alien Enemy Law and returning the case to the 5th US Circuit Appeals Court to resolve questions about how much time should be given for prisoners to oppose their transfer.

The majority said the government did not provide targeted migrants under the authority of the war with sufficient time or information to oppose their cases.

“The interests of prisoners who are at stake are very heavy. In this situation, pay attention to about 24 hours before the transfer, without information about how to use the rights of legal proceedings to oppose the transfer, certainly did not pass,” the majority wrote in the decision. “But that is not optimal for this court, far from the situation in the field, to determine in the first example of the right process needed to meet the constitution in this case.”

The US Supreme Court, May 14, 2025 in Washington.

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The orders applied to migrants held in Texas. Hakimi did not reach a question about the validity of the transfer under the alien enemy law.

“We recognize the importance of the interests of the government’s national security as well as the need that the interests are pursued in a way that is consistent with the constitution. Given the things mentioned above, the lower court must handle the AEA cases quickly,” they wrote.

Hakimi Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas disagree.

Not long after the court made a decision, President Donald Trump issued all-Caps statements about the social truth that detonated the judge.

“The Supreme Court will not allow us to expel criminals from our country!” he said.

Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, told ABC News in a statement on Friday that the Supreme Court “correctly made a pause” about the use of alien enemy laws.

“For now, this means that no more people can be rushed to a brutal foreign prison, may not communicate for the rest of their lives,” he said.

Earlier this week, Trump’s government asked the court to raise his orders, on the grounds that the migrants intended to be deported based on the law were dangerous.

The original court’s orders came down as a rare ruling last night on Saturday, April 19, and blocking the government from deporting Texas migrants.

-ABC News’ Laura Romero and Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.

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