Judge blocks Trump from deporting 5 Venezuelans in anticipation of administration invoking wartime law [View all]

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Source: Politico

A federal judge has preemptively barred the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelan nationals, as the administration prepares to deploy a rarely used law meant to quickly remove foreigners during wartime or invasion.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued the urgent ruling Saturday morning, citing “exigent circumstances,” just hours after a lawsuit was filed on behalf of five Venezuelan men who say they have been cued up for deportation within hours or days as a result of Trump’s expected decision to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Boasberg, the chief judge for the federal district court in Washington, D.C., also called for a hearing Saturday afternoon on the lawsuit’s effort to ensure anyone else targeted by Trump’s expected invocation is protected from immediate deportation.

The lawsuit, filed by Democracy Forward and the ACLU, emphasizes that the Alien Enemies Act has only been invoked during wartime — the War of 1812, World War I and World War II.

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By Kyle Cheney and Myah Ward
03/15/2025 12:30 PM EDT
Updated: 03/15/2025 01:39 PM EDT


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Update:

Source: ABC News

2 hours and 21 minutes ago

Trump appeals temporary restraining order on Alien Enemies Act

Lawyers with the Department of Justice asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to enter an administrative stay of the lower court's temporary restraining order, which blocks the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport noncitizens.

"This Court should halt this massive, unauthorized imposition on the Executive’s authority to remove dangerous aliens who pose threats to the American people," the filing said.

The government argued that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg overstepped his authority, declined to hear a response from the Trump administration before ruling and is "setting the stage to potentially inject itself into all such removals nationwide."

Boasberg previously oversaw the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court and was nominated to federal judicial roles by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

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