The Supreme Court on Friday delivered yet another blow to President Donald Trump’s attempts to deport immigrants by exerting a wartime emergency power, ordering the administration to stop the rushed process it keeps trying to use to remove migrants it deems “alien enemies” without offering them an opportunity to challenge that designation.
The move comes a month after the court temporarily halted government rendition flights that cite the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to accuse migrants of being Venezuelan gang members, before sending them to a Salvadoran prison accused of torturing inmates.
Friday’s opinion listed no author and was ascribed to the entire court, but only two conservative jurists on high court dissented: Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.