The Supreme Court ruled Friday that lower courts must give migrants more time to challenge their potential removal under a centuries-old wartime law, as part of the legal dispute over President Donald Trump’s high-profile deportation effort.
The justices previously had ruled that migrants that the government sought to deport under the Alien Enemies Act must have an opportunity to contest their removals at the court with jurisdiction over where they are held. That led to several lawsuits filed in different federal courts.
Friday’s unsigned order stemmed from one of those cases in Texas, 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.”
