Deportation Standoff
Tren de Aragua (and other) deportations continue: Yesterday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg “ruled his temporary order will remain in effect, restricting new deportations [of accused Venezuelan gang members] until the men are given an opportunity to challenge their connection to the gang,” reports Bloomberg.
Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act, which applies in situations when the country has “declared war” or is suffering an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” to deport suspected gang members.
But this specific swat-down by the courts is important because this is the judge for whom a spurned Trump had threatened impeachment last week (“HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY,” wrote Trump), before being swiftly rebuked by Chief Justice John Roberts. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” said Roberts. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
The ruling by Boasberg states that each person being deported needs the opportunity to challenge the case against them. “Each vehemently denies being a member of Tren de Aragua,” wrote Boasberg in his Monday ruling. “Several in fact claim that they fled Venezuela to escape the predations of the group, and they fear grave consequences if deported solely because of the Government’s unchallenged labeling.”
Indeed, new information has come to light suggesting that several deportees are not gang-affiliated at all:
All available evidence strongly suggests that at least one of the Venezuelans shipped to a monstrous prison in El Salvador for life has nothing to do with Tren De Aragua (though the refusal to allow hearings means all cases are uncertain).
Far worse, he was in the US legally: https://t.co/cTi6vgWn36
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 23, 2025
Rehiring federal workers? Yesterday, the Trump administration submitted an emergency application to the Supreme Court, asking it to block a California federal judge’s ruling that would order the rehiring of some 16,000 fired federal government employees.
First, the administration spends some time complaining about all the injunctions and temporary restraining orders used against it.”Whereas ‘district courts issued 14 universal injunctions against the federal government through the first three years of President Biden’s term,’ they issued ’15 universal injunctions (or temporary restraining orders) against the current Administration in February 2025 alone,'” according to Acting Solicitor General Sarah M. Harris.
Then, the administrat
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