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PermalinkAMERICA CANNOT GIVE EVERYONE A TRIAL
Apr 21
Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court
on Monday after the justices temporarily
blocked him from deporting Venezuelan
immigrants, while asserting that America
cannot give everyone a trial a bedrock
constitutional right. The high court
over the weekend took up an emergency
petition from the American Civil
Liberties Union of Texas, which warned
that Trumps administration was preparing
to deport another group of Venezuelan
immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act
without giving them a reasonable
opportunity to contest their removals.
Trump previously shipped hundreds of
Venezuelan men, without due process, to
a notorious torture prison in El Salvador.
He did so after invoking the Alien
Enemies Act, a notorious wartime law
used to justify the internment of
Japanese Americans during World War II.
Trump claims he can use the law to
deport Venezuelans who are allegedly
members of gangs that he has deemed
terrorist organizations and his
administration claims it doesnt have
to bring anyone back, even when courts
say to do so. The Supreme Court, which
conservatives control 6-3, ruled
earlier this month that the Trump
administration must notify immigrants
hes detained under the Alien Enemies
Act that they are subject to removal
under the act. Further, the justices
wrote: The notice must be afforded
within a reasonable time and in such
a manner as will allow them to
actually seek habeas relief in the
proper venue before such removal
occurs. The ACLU warned the
administration is not complying with
that order and was giving many of
the Venezuelan detainees fewer than
24 hours to challenge their removals.
Many of them were reportedly already
placed on buses headed to the airport.
While lower courts refused to step
in, the Supreme Court issued an order
blocking the deportations until
further order of this court,
inviting Trumps solicitor general to
file a response to the ACLUs
application with the court. Trump,
who keeps arguing it should be
illegal to criticize the Supreme
Court, lashed out at the justices on
Monday. Im doing what I was elected
to do, remove criminals from our
Country, but the Courts dont seem to
want me to do that, he wrote on Truth
Social.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-supreme-court-immigrants-trial-due-process-1235322264/