Donald Trump’s fascist regime has lost in court again – this time in the Supreme Court where the majority of justices granted a preliminary injunction that extends a pause on deportations immigrants from Venezuela under the false invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. Two justices dissented, arguing that they should have just stood by while migrants were deported.
NPR reports that Trump had tried to use the 18th century wartime measure to quickly deport migrants that he deems a “threat to the United States.” His sham excuse was that we are suffering an invasion by a Venezuelan transnational criminal organization called Tren de Aragua.
While a truly heinous group of criminals, they are in no way invading our country and we are not at war with Venezuela. The plaintiffs sought relief from the Supreme Court because they claim the government did not give migrants detained in Texas enough time to argue against their deportations, aka get due process.
The pause is not going to last forever, but for the time being, deportations under the Alien Enemies Act are stopped. Prior to the case making its way to the Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said it “didn’t have jurisdiction over the case and said the Venezuelans had appealed too quickly after a lower court ruled against them.”
Apparently, seven justices on the Supreme Court disagreed. They wrote in their opinion:
