New Document Undermines Trump Administration’s Claims About Deported Venezuelans

The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken time and again in front of a judge in Washington.

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Appeals Court to Consider Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act in Mass Deportations

The case before one of the most conservative courts in the country is likely to be the first to reach the Supreme Court.

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Justice Dept. Seeks to Pause Ruling Ordering Due Process for Deported Venezuelans

The emergency request came a day before the Trump administration was supposed to outline how to allow nearly 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador to challenge their expulsion.

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ACLU Presses to Stop Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act in Court Brief

It was an opening salvo in what is likely to be the decisive legal battle over the president’s attempts to employ the rarely used wartime law as a centerpiece of his aggressive deportation agenda.

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Federal Courts Buck Trump Deportation Schemes, Focusing on Due Process Rights

The Trump administration’s aggressive push to deport migrants has run up against resistance from the judiciary.

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Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan Gang

The move followed a disclosure that intelligence agencies disagree with a key factual claim Trump made to invoke a wartime deportation law.

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Trump Can Use Alien Enemies Act Against Venezuelan Gang, Judge Rules

The ruling, applying only to detainees held in western Pennsylvania, is the first to uphold the president’s invocation of the wartime act. But it requires that detainees be given 21 days’ notice.

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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Venezuelan Deportations to Resume

The solicitor general contended that a group of migrants had barricaded themselves inside a Texas detention center and threatened to take hostages.

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In Texas Borderland, Trump’s Immigration Push Suffers Its Worst Legal Defeat Yet

Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. is a Trump nominee with conservative credentials. But he found White House claims about a Venezuelan gang “invasion” went too far.

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Texas Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans

The ruling, which is limited to the Southern District of Texas, prohibited the administration from using the wartime law because the president’s claims about a Venezuelan gang do not add up to an “invasion.”

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