The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review a restraining order that temporarily blocks its use of an 18th-century wartime immigration law to immediately deport Venezuelan nationals.
Fox News reports that the appeal comes shortly after the DC. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Wednesday to uphold a lower court’s decision to temporarily block the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act for a 14-day period, to allow the judge time to review the merits of the case.
The Trump administration had vowed to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court if the three-judge panel in D.C. further blocked them from using the 1798 wartime law to carry out its deportation agenda.
In the filing, U.S. Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harrmis told the Supreme Court that the lower court’s “flawed” orders “threaten the government’s sensitive negotiations with foreign powers,” and risk “serious and perhaps irreparable harm if not immediately reviewed” by the high court.
At minimum, the Trump administration said, the Supreme Court should grant an administrative stay to allow them to continue using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan nationals while the court considers the government’s orders.
They also sharply criticized the appeals court’s decision handed down Wednesday. Writing for the 2-1 majority in the appeals court decision, U.S. Circuit Court Judges Karen Henderson, a Bush appointee, and Patricia Millett, an Obama appointee, focused heavily on concerns of due process violations, as well as complaints of immediate and irreparable harm cited by the plaintiffs.
Allowing Trump to use the law in the near-term “risks exiling plaintiffs to a land that is not their country of origin,” Henderson said in a concurring opinion siding with the lower court judge.
Millett, for her part, said that siding with the Trump administration would moot the Plaintiffs’ claims by immediately removing them beyond the reach of their lawyers or the court.”
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So, making sure gangs of illegal aliens have legal representation in the US even though by being here at all was done illegally and they are illegally here? What the hell is wrong with the judicial system? This is NOT in their purview.
Time to shut these democrat justices down. Impeach them and make sure they cannot stand in the way of the executive branch’s decision to remove all the illegal aliens because they came here illegally and should be removed as soon as possible. They ARE NOT CITIZENS! They are ILLEGAL ALIENS!
This crapola is not done with other presidents who have removed illegal aliens. And Venezuela at the time refused to take them back so Ecuador stepped up and they are indeed criminals! Trump needs to ignore the national orders of these small time district judges playing politics. They are just dimwit nitwit stooges continuing their unlawful lawfare still right in front of the nation who wants these illegal aliens removed. We do not want to support the freeloaders.
Come here legally or do not come at all. And speaking fluent English, being able to support yourself, and making no attempt to get on welfare is the very least in the requirements. In the US, English is what we speak. Spanish nor any other language is used in the US AT ALL!!
Remember this crapola when you vote in every election from now on. Dimwit nitwit desperately need the new class to vote for them in return for the free ride on the tax payers dime. I will remember this other game of lawfare. Vote dimwits OUT!