Trump, Alien Enemies Act
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“You’ve said that it was perfectly appropriate for the government to act as it did, so who made that perfectly appropriate decision?”
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While other judges around the US have considered in recent months whether the government violated their orders in disputes over federal funding and transgender rights, Thursday’s hearing goes much fur...
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Like with the Japanese internment during World War II, the current move to deport alleged alien criminals is driven by hysteria.
The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the tenuous period following the Revolutionary War.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign was pressed by Judge James Boasberg during the hearing in Washington, DC, about who in the Trump administration was involved in ordering three
Lawyers for alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to leave in place an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that prohibits the federal government from removing them,
Harvard Law School professor W. Neil Eggleston — former President Barack Obama’s White House Counsel and a member of President Bill Clinton’s Counsel Office — discussed President Donald Trump’s executive authority to trigger the Alien Enemies Act without following due process at a Tuesday lunch talk.
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In an official apology issued by the U.S. government decades later, the federal government admitted the reason for the camps wasn’t safety, security or even threats of espionage, instead it was racism and political incompetence that created the camps that dotted the American interior.
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a District Court judge's order blocking the use of an obscure 18th century law to summarily expel Venezuelan immigrants. Earlier this month,
Venezuelan men wearing Michael Jordan jerseys and sporting tattoos have been unfairly branded as “alien enemy” gang members worthy of deportation, according to lawyers challenging the Trump administration.