This little game with Judge James Boasberg is over. The Trump administration has the right to deport illegal aliens under the Alien Enemies Act. The executive is in full control of immigration policy. Boasberg the clown got shut down, but as expected, some of the articles about this from the legacy press were ridiculous. The Washington Post said the ruling was divided. It was a 5-4 decision—a clear majority, guys:
Today's Democrats tried very hard to stop this.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) April 8, 2025
They want these foreign terrorists roaming our streets.
Robbing, kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering Americans.
They actually imported these foreign terrorists and put them up in 4-star hotels.
Truly demonic people. https://t.co/ymgIFlvnFr
The court lifted a pair of orders by Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg that had barred the government from removing noncitizens who were designated as members of TdA under Trump's March 15 executive order.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) April 7, 2025
Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett, and Jackson dissent.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) April 7, 2025
A divided Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to use a controversial wartime authority to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang, but said detainees must first have an opportunity to challenge their deportations.
The 5-4 ruling did not touch on the underlying legal questions about the government’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, one of the most high-profile and contentious immigration enforcement actions so far in President Donald Trump’s second term.
Instead, the majority ruled that the five Venezuelan immigrants who challenged the policy did so in the wrong court, leaving open the possibility that those targeted for deportation could refile their case in Texas or other jurisdictions where they are detained.
“The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia,” the justices wrote of the challenge in U.S. District Court in D.C. “As a result, the Government is likely to succeed on the merits of this action.”
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The decision appears to take the central legal issues of the case away from Judge James E. Boasberg of U.S. District Court in Washington, whose temporary restraining order blocking the deportations prompted impeachment calls from Trump and his allies and triggered a showdown between the president and the judiciary.
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“Appears”—no, it did take it away. You lose, Boasberg. But this case brought Justice Amy Coney Barrett front and center again. She sided with the liberal majority, so we’re back to this question: do we have an Amy Coney Barrett problem?
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules Trump has authority to use Alien Enemies Act against Venezuelan illegals.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 7, 2025
Judge Boasberg's order is void. pic.twitter.com/8d9cRD8Hq4
Major win for President Trump, the presidency, and our country.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) April 7, 2025
Judge Boasberg unlawfully and dangerously took the federal judiciary to the brink.
Five justices stopped him.
Professor Amy Coney Barrett joined the 3 liberals. What a disaster. Total lack of sound judgment. https://t.co/DvckAXDJzJ
one of these things is not like the other https://t.co/EUxixG2fBk
— Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@honestpollster) April 8, 2025
ACB might be Trump's biggest mistake pic.twitter.com/QvNfFhRPQt
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 8, 2025
This isn’t the first time we’ve asked this, too.
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