This post was republished with permission from Zero Hedge
Update (1715ET): President Trump took to TruthSocial to issue his brief but terse statement:
“THE SUPREME COURT WON’T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!”
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The Supreme Court ruled this afternoon to keep in place its block on President Trump’s deportations of (alleged) Venezuelan gang members under a 1798 law historically used only in wartime after their ACLU lawyers said the government was set to remove the men without judicial review in violation of a prior order by the justices.
The Supreme Court has previously issued two orders stemming from those cases.
Justices agreed that the president could rely on the centuries-old wartime law to remove immigrants from the country – provided they first have an opportunity to challenge those claims in court – and then temporarily blocked the government from deporting another group of Venezuelans in Texas while their lawyers scrambled to challenge the allegations against them.
In his proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, Trump stated that “all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of [Tren de Aragua], are within the United States, and are not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies.”
The 7-2 decision clarified an unusual order issued by the justices in the early hours of April 19 that hit pause on any government plans to deport people held in northern Texas.
The Supreme Court delivered a blow to the Trump Administration in blocking deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. However, the Court only did so based on the lack of notice (24 hours) afforded by the Administration. It did not rule on the legality of the use of the AEA…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 16, 2025
Over the dissents of conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the justices in the latest unsigned decision slammed the Trump admin for only giving the detainees 24 hours to launch legal challenges.
“Notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster,” the court wrote in its unsigned opinion.
“But it is not optimal for this Court, far removed from the circumstances on the ground, to determine in the first instance the precise process necessary to satisfy the Constitution in this case. We remand the case to the Fifth Circuit for that purpose,” the opinion continued.
However, as The Hill reports, the justices declined the ACLU’s additional request to leapfrog the lower courts to immediately take up the issue of whether President Trump can invoke the rarely used law outside of wartime.
Instead, the case will return to the lower courts alongside a handful of other challenges being brought by the civil rights group around the country.
So it’s legal for a president to ship millions of illegal aliens into our country but it’s illegal to send them home?
— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) May 16, 2025
The system is broken. The Supreme Court failed us.
Whose country is this anymore?
The issue could ultimately return to the justices, who directed the lower courts to act “expeditiously.”
Now, we all anxiously await President Trump’s response to this decision…
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The courts have no power over the executive branch and sanctuary cities were never going to play ball anyway so nothing has changed with this ruling. It was always going to be do it the hard way.
All they have accomplished is lose billions in funding at a time when cities are broke from the invasion. That will not fair well with voters going forward. Not a very intelligent move. The black robes should stay out of politics. They suck at it.
Democrat Boomers from my generation have successfully indoctrinated the second generation of virtue signalers that “just want to be good people” at the expense of their own children. Cowards.
Imagine letting five young males from parts unknown that you know nothing of into your house, give them keys, and telling your kids you just wanted to be a good person after they raped and murdered your children who were trying to tell you they were stealing everything and your need to feel morally important jeopardized your own. These Democrat, and some RINO’s were the “revolutionary” youth of the 1960’s that rioted to hate on and slandered America and anyone in uniform service to her, cops, mailman, and especially Nam combat veterans. Their moral prerogative platitudes were played by Communist in academia, .Gov, Hollywood, and MSM were no different than today. Everything previous generations fought for was their’s to give away post WWII because they believed themselves morally superior, they were told.
Now tell me that’s not dystopian lunacy.
Dolt!