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- progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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- progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
The Supreme Court on Friday granted a request by Venezuelan nationals seeking an injunction against their removal from the United States under the Alien Enemies Act.
In an unsigned decision, the court said the Trump administration had not given the detainees enough time or adequate resources to challenge their deportations.
“Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster,” the ruling said.
The court did not rule on whether the Alien Enemies Act, which the Trump administration invoked in mid-April to deport the detainees, had been applied correctly.
If you read the article text, the ruling wasn’t on whether Trump’s use of the act in the first place was proper or not, but rather on a narrow technical aspect of how the Executive Branch implemented it.
I would expect a ruling that depended on whether or not the situation constituted an “invasion” would be unanimous.