Posted on 04/07/2025 4:05:05 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated Judge Boasberg’s orders barring the Trump Administration’s removals of Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.
The high court said Boasberg did not have jurisdiction.
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Boesburg wasn’t the judge giving the order addressed by the supreme court today.”
Quit digging.
A remote hearing was then held early this evening before Chief Judge James E. Boasberg, where the ACLU and Democracy Forward successfully requested preliminary certification of a class action and the expansion of the TRO to everyone detained and in danger of removal under the act. The TRO motion this evening was argued by Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and lead counsel in this case.
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“You keep saying it’s vacated as if that explains everything but can’t understand what was actually vacated.”
It is in the decision. The orders that Trump cannot “export” the detainees.
That lawsuit is dead. The suit was not valid. The District Judge had no jurisdiction.
“These guys were previously found by an immigation court to be gang members.”
I had not heard that. Is that true?
“I’ve attempted to explain it to you the best I can.
It’s obvious that’s not possible.”
Not when I am right and you are wrong.
Again. Two separate issues.
The midnight deadline was ordered by Xinis.
Put on hold. Litigated later
The use of the AEA was Boesberg.
Court said it should be tried in Texas first, then the Supreme Court could possibly take it on.
‘ Not when I am right and you are wrong.’
You can’t even explain what your right about except to say vacated a dozen times.
1”The use of the AEA was Boesberg.”
Correct. And his orders were vacated by the USSC as I have told you a dozen times.
-PJ
‘ It is in the decision. The orders that Trump cannot “export” the detainees.
That lawsuit is dead. The suit was not valid. The District Judge had no jurisdiction.’
It said that had to be tried in Texas first.
I don't see a 5-4 in THIS decision, but in the decision ACB does side with Sotomayer, Kagan, and Jackson in part.
-PJ
So Amy Coney Barrett continues her slide to the left... great
For what it's worth, here is its answer (based on 15 web pages and 8 X posts):
No, the Tren de Aragua deportees were not all found by an immigration court to be gang members. The Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport over 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members in March 2025 bypassed standard immigration court proceedings for many of them. This old wartime law lets the president remove noncitizens deemed “alien enemies” without the usual due process—like immigration hearings—during war or invasion scenarios. Trump invoked it on March 15, claiming Tren de Aragua was waging “irregular warfare” against the U.S., and by the next day, 261 people, including 137 under the act, were flown to El Salvador’s CECOT prison.I want these bastards out of our country ASAP, but this process is a bit troubling to me.Here’s the rub: the administration didn’t provide public evidence that every deportee was a gang member, and immigration courts didn’t individually verify their status. A senior ICE official admitted in a sworn statement that “many” of those deported under the act had no U.S. criminal records, arguing their lack of a “complete profile” justified the move. Families and lawyers—like the ACLU’s Lee Gelernt—pushed back, saying some were nabbed based on shaky stuff like tattoos (think roses or soccer logos) or hometowns near Aragua, not solid gang ties. At least five deportees’ attorneys filed declarations denying Tren de Aragua links, pointing to cases like a soccer player with a Real Madrid tattoo mislabeled as gang ink.
The Supreme Court’s April 7 ruling vacated Judge Boasberg’s block on these deportations, but it didn’t confirm all were gang members—it just shifted the venue and insisted on “reasonable notice” for deportees to challenge their designation. That notice didn’t happen before the flights; the process was too fast. El Salvador’s government took them in, but Venezuela’s Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, claimed none matched their Tren de Aragua “organizational chart,” muddying the waters further. Bottom line: no immigration court got to rule on each case—Trump’s team leaned on executive power and a broad “gang” brush, not judicial findings. Evidence varies, and the full truth’s still a tangle.
El Salvador took them in, and Venezuela’s Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, claimed none matched their Tren de Aragua roster, though that’s hard to trust given Maduro’s line that the gang’s a myth. Bottom line: no public data shows any of those 137 were confirmed gang members by an immigration court before takeoff. The process was too rushed, and the act’s design skips that step. Without court records or a transparent count from ICE, it’s a black box—could be some, could be none. The feds say they vetted them, but it’s their word against a wall of silence on specifics.
“It said that had to be tried in Texas first.”
Not “first”.
There were two different cases SCOTUS ruled on today. In the case concerning the MS-13 member, there was an indefinite stay of the order to bring him back, but the case is still pending at the moment.
In this case, involving Boasberg and the AEA, SCOTUS ruled that the TROs were vacated because Boasberg never had jurisdiction over the case in the first place. Any challenge had to be made in Texas and as a habeas petition. Therefore ALL of Boasberg’s rulings in this case are null and void. The case is not being remanded to him, because he has no jurisdiction. There are no further hearings necessary on this issue at the moment because no cases have been filed in the proper venue under the proper cause of action. Any future case in which the government wants to use the AEA, the deportees must be given notice and the opportunity to challenge their designation as members of TdA, but that must be done in Texas as well.
Does that clarify things?
‘ Not “first”.’
Before the Supreme Court could get involved they had to go through the jurisdiction in Texas first, not Maryland where Xinis is a district judge.
Read post 175.
Maybe you’ll take someone else’s take.
FYI. - Fuzz is a NeverTrump troll. Ignore that a-hole!
You said it better than I could.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP for standing tall and firm handed during all of this garbage!!
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