Supreme Court maintains block on some Trump deportations of migrants

The Washington Post ^ | May 16, 2025 | Ann E. Marimow

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The justices did not address the broader question about whether Trump officials can legally invoke the Alien Enemies Act to target alleged gang members.

A divided Supreme Court on Friday kept a block on the Trump administration’s use of a rarely invoked wartime power to deport migrants in Northern Texas and said administration officials had not given those targeted for removal last month sufficient time to challenge their deportations.

The majority called the detainees’ interests “particularly weighty” because of the risk of removal to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador where the migrants could face indefinite detention.

President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target a Venezuelan gang is one of the most controversial parts of his mass deportation efforts, which are at the center of increasingly tense standoffs between his administration and the courts.

Trump responded angrily to the Friday order in a post on Truth Social, writing “THE SUPREME COURT WON’T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!”

The justices had told the administration in early April that it must give targeted detainees sufficient notice “within a reasonable time and in such a manner” that they can challenge their removal in the jurisdictions where they are being held. The high court intervened again a week later, issuing an extraordinary middle-of-the-night order to temporarily halt deportations of a group of migrants in Northern Texas. Lawyers for those migrants said they had been loaded onto buses and were at risk of imminent removal to El Salvador.

In their order Friday, the justices seemed to send the message that they meant what they said the first time. Using stronger language, they emphasized the importance of courts ensuring a fair or due process before deportation and twice alluded to...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

they emphasized the importance of courts ensuring a fair or due process before deportation

Never mind no "due process" before importation.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Trump needs to figure out how to “house arrest” these TDA crew in the SC justices neighborhoods.

[Tell It Right]

Put the violent illegals outside the homes of every justice that blocks deportations. Let the justices experience what they’re forcing everybody else to experience.

[Leaning Right]

The Constitution was not meant to be a suicide pact.

The majority of the current Supreme Court evidently disagrees.

😡

[Paladin2]

Traitor Roberts continues to traitor.

[Fledermaus]

The country is over

[onona]

Ignore, Ignore, and Ignore some more.

The rule of law is absent in America.

[onona]

The Judiciary Branch of our Republic is out of control.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Not just him on this case. All but Thomas and Alito opposed the Trump administration.

Yes I know technically this is a procedural ruling. But it doesn’t seem to bode well, for legal arguments yet to come, as far as giving illegal aliens all the alleged due process rights which they allegedly have, even though they aren’t American citizens.

[escapefromboston]

Supreme Court needs to be ignored.

[Westbrook]

Where was the “due process” for Americans put into solitary confinement for YEARS just for walking through the “people’s house”?

[Freee-dame]

“ The majority called the detainees’ interests “particularly weighty” because of the risk of removal to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador where the migrants could face indefinite detention”

The holdover US attorney who came out publicly and said that it was a “mistake” to deport the Maryland wifebeating human trafficking Tren de Aragua gang member has done irreparable harm to our country. Before his case was made a media cause celebe, I never even heard about that prison in El Salvador. Now it has affected a Supreme Court decision.

[Paladin2]

Traitor Roberts runs his handmaiden, Amy Conehead.

Beer Man seems to be a Moon in Orbit.

Goresuch continues to drift off target.

[Totally sick it has become.]

[hillarys cankles]

It’s kinda simple in my book. I go on television and explain how Biden brought million upon millions of illegals in with no pushback and no vetting. And NO DUE PROCESS. Then I explain how I am gonna do the same thing to get them out. And the courts are not gonna stop me.

[hillarys cankles]

If Trump does not ignore the courts the the deportations are pretty much done. The political courts are going to do everything in their power to stop Trump. It’s time for Trump to start acting like what they are accusing him of already.

[Freee-dame]

Giving a Tren de Aragua gangbanger 24 hour notice that he will be arrested will just give him time to flee and hide.

[nutmeg]

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[MGunny]

Suspend Habeas Corpus. Lincoln did it.

[escapefromboston]

Send all the gang members to the home of all the Justices that support the invasion of America. Its what they want

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Look! If you squint real hard, you can spot some “due process”