Posted on 03/31/2025 6:50:18 AM PDT by Beave Meister
The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday morning, asking the justices to allow it to enforce an executive order that directs government officials to quickly remove, without a hearing, noncitizens who are designated as members of a Venezuelan gang. The order relies on a 1798 law that until now has only been invoked during wartime.
Earlier this month, Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg barred the federal government from removing any of the alleged members of the gang, or anyone else, under the Alien Enemies Act.
In 40-page filing, Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris told the justices that the dispute “presents fundamental questions about who decides how to conduct sensitive national-security operations in this country — the President, through Article II” of the Constitution, “or the Judiciary,” through temporary restraining orders. “The Constitution,” Harris wrote, “supplies a clear answer: the President. The republic cannot afford a different choice.”
The White House issued the executive order on March 15. It targets Tren de Aragua, a large Venezuelan gang that originated in the country’s prisons and then expanded into other parts of Latin America, where it has been responsible for sex trafficking, drugs, and human smuggling. The gang extended its presence to the United States, prompting then-candidate Donald Trump to falsely contend during a 2024 presidential debate that the gang had taken over the city of Aurora, Colo., outside Denver.
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THIS ALIEN WAS LEGALLY ADMITTED TO THE USA.
THE MILLIONS THAT TRUMP IS DEPORTING DID NOT DO THAT.
” . . . to FALSELY contend . . . “
Unfortunately, everyone, legal or illegal is entitled to due process.
John Roberts has already at least $10 million from outside law firms by having his wife ‘advise’ who should be picked as a lawyer for law firms so he will not do anything that will jeopardize the flow of money. We do not know of other money he is getting.
Google: John Roberts wife received $10 million
Roberts earned the eight-figure total between 2007 and 2014 while working at the recruiting company Major, Lindsey & Africa
Jane Roberts, the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, made more than $10 million in commissions over an eight-year stretch where she matched top lawyers with elite law firms—including some that had cases before the Supreme Court
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