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  1. #Boasberg has said the #Trump admin may have acted in #BadFaith by trying to rush Venezuelan immigrants out of the country in defiance of his order. He said he gave the admin “ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions” but concluded that “none of their responses has been satisfactory.”

    #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #AbuseOfPower #judiciary #JudgeShopping

  2. …On March 15, 2025, #Boasberg issued a TRO barring the admin from transferring a group of Venezuelan immigrants to #ElSalvador under the #AlienEnemiesAct an 18th century #law. After the order was entered, 2 planeloads of immigrants protected by the order departed from the #US on their way to El Salvador, where they were locked up in #CECOT, one of the world’s most violent prisons. The admin said then DHS Secy Kristi Noem was responsible for the transfer decision.

    #law #immigration #AbuseOfPower

  3. Appeals court orders judge to end contempt investigation of #Trump admin #deportation flights

    A federal judge must end his “intrusive” contempt investigation of the Trump admin for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year, a divided appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.

    #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #judiciary #JudgeShopping
    apnews.com/article/trump-judge

  4. Sen. #TammyDuckworth (D-IL)∶ If it's true that we are not at #war with #Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime #AlienEnemiesAct?

    #MarcoRubio∶ That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger

    Duckworth∶ It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?

    Rubio∶ No.

    #geopolitics #law #immigration #DueProcess #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #oil #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

  5. Trump’s threat against Minnesota this week is the latest example of how his administration has considered using arcane laws and legal arguments to enact his agenda.

    In addition to the #InsurrectionAct, Trump officials have talked publicly about #suspending #due #process, a foundational constitutional principle.

    Trump invoked the
    #AlienEnemiesAct last year
    to speed up deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members.

    White House officials considered using it a second time to justify detaining people in Chicago, according to previously unreported Signal messages obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune.

    The 1798 wartime law,
    designed to combat an invasion or predatory incursion,
    has only been used three times prior to this administration.
    -- The last time was during World War II.

    Opponents have aggressively fought the administration in court over these maneuvers.

    This week, both Minnesota and Illinois filed lawsuits challenging the legality of Trump’s immigration enforcement.

    The Illinois Attorney General’s Office alleged federal agents acted as “occupiers” instead of law enforcement during operations in the state last fall.

    In separate cases, federal judges issued temporary restraining orders in both #Portland and #Chicago #Illinois, stopping the administration from sending National Guard troops into those cities.

    A judge ordered troops out of #California in December, saying it violated the law.

    And another judge has limited the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport people.

    In an interview with the New York Times, #Trump suggested the Insurrection Act could provide a work-around to legal rulings.

    “Look, I’ve been stopped on some things,” he told the newspaper last week.

    “Now, I will say, if I feel it’s important to invoke the Insurrection Act,
    which I have the right to do,
    that’s a different thing,
    because then I have the right to do pretty much what I want to do.
    But I haven’t done that.”

    startribune.com/we-are-living-

  6. Maduro's case is expected to be overseen by #US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein because he was assigned to the 2020 case brought against #Maduro.

    The 92-year-old jurist has been skeptical of arguments by the #Trump admin in other high-profile cases. Earlier this year, Hellerstein rejected efforts to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members under the #AlienEnemiesAct, saying the wartime #law had been improperly invoked by the admin.

    #imperialism #geopolitics #Venezuela #oil #sovereignty

  7. Here is the full text what the immigration judge ordered in 2019. As Judge #Xinis notes, NONE of these three things include an order of removal.

    The government tried to argue that the withholding grant was "implicitly" a removal order, but the #law requires an explicit one.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump

  8. Judge #Xinis finds that #KilmarAbregoGarcia was NEVER ordered deported in 2019. She notes that ever since this began in March 2025, the government has NEVER been able to produce ANY evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

    #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump

  9. US District Judge Paula #Xinis ruled that #ICE must release #KilmarAbregoGarcia from custody immediately.

    “Since Abrego Garcia’s return from wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority,” the judge wrote. “For this reason, the Court will GRANT Abrego Garcia’s Petition for immediate release from ICE custody.”

    #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
    apnews.com/article/abrego-garc

  10. 🚨Judge orders #KilmarAbregoGarcia to be released from #ICE custody ‘immediately’

    A federal judge in Maryland ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from ICE custody “immediately,” acc/to a Thursday court filing, a significant development in the case concerning the El Salvadoran mistakenly deported this year before being returned to the #US.

    #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CECOT #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #Trump
    cnn.com/2025/12/11/politics/ju

  11. Judge #Boasberg to resume #criminal #contempt inquiry into #Trump ofcls involved in #AlienEnemiesAct #deportation flights

    A federal judge said Wed that he plans to “promptly” move ahead with an effort to find out which Trump admin ofcls were responsible for flouting his orders in a high-stakes #immigration case – & whether they will face punishment for their actions.

    #law #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #CivilRights #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
    cnn.com/2025/11/19/politics/bo