The Supreme Court could soon say more about the legal process for migrants whom the government decides to remove from the country expeditiously under a centuries-old wartime law, in one of several legal challenges happening in federal courts.
The justices early Saturday put a pause on the Trump administration’s efforts to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members from a Texas facility, after the American Civil Liberties Union filed an emergency application that said the government’s “lightning-fast timeline” did not giving the migrants “a realistic opportunity to contest their removal.”
Justices issued the administrative stay without any accompanying formal opinion, directing the Trump administration “not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court.”
