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  1. “It prevents, in effect, governmental actors from detaining, imprisoning or executing individuals arbitrarily,” Scharf wrote.
    #SCOTUS had allowed the admin to continue its use of the #AlienEnemiesAct as the basis for deporting Venezuelans in the #US illegally. But also ruled that the migrants were entitled to challenge their #deportations in court before being expelled. The detainees, the court held, could file lawsuits citing #HabeasCorpus to challenge the basis for their removal…

    #Trump #law

  2. While some in the #TrumpAdministration (not #ElonMusk, though) tried(!) to wear their #fascism not too blatantly obvious on their sleeves so that people would unanimously agree on it being fascism, aliens.gov/ paints a very clear picture:

    #UmbertoEco describes several things that you can see on the #AlienFiles site as fascism:

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    #uspol #MassDeportations2026 #politics #TrumpAdministration2026 #Project2025 #AlienEnemiesAct #HabeasCorpus #DueProcess #SecondTrumpAdminstration

  3. For a moment, I thought, aliens.gov/ was the release of the #UFOFiles—it sure does look like the #XFiles on the preview thumbnail—but it is just the usual government propaganda for illegal #MassDeportations of the #SecondTrumpAdminstration

    So, are there even any UFO files coming or was that just the marketing stunt for this?

    #uspol #MassDeportations2026 #TrumpAdministration #politics #TrumpAdministration2026 #Project2025 #AlienEnemiesAct #HabeasCorpus #DueProcess #AlienFiles

  4. #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

  5. …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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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-

  9. 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