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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sun Apr 20, 2025, 02:57 AM Sunday

DOJ asks Supreme Court to reject ACLU request to pause deportations

DOJ asks Supreme Court to reject ACLU request to pause deportations

BY ELVIA LIMON 04/19/25 09:33 PM ET


The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., is seen on Tuesday, March 25, 2025.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Saturday afternoon to reject an emergency request to temporarily pause the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants to El Salvador swiftly detained in portions of Texas.

In a court filing, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the high court to “dissolve its current administrative stay” issued early Saturday and to allow “lower courts to address the relevant legal and factual questions.”

The emergency order temporarily blocks the deportations until the high court resolves the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) emergency appeal, filed hours before the pause over concerns that more deportation flights were imminent. … Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, two of the court’s leading conservatives, dissented.

In Sauer’s filing, he claimed that lawyers for the migrants had “improperly skilled over the lower courts,” making their request that the Supreme Court step in “fatally premature.”

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DOJ asks Supreme Court to reject ACLU request to pause deportations (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Sunday OP
As legal fight raged, ICE buses filled with Venezuelans heading toward airport turned around, video shows LetMyPeopleVote Sunday #1
The plaintiff, A. A. R. P., is not the one you think. mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday #2

LetMyPeopleVote

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1. As legal fight raged, ICE buses filled with Venezuelans heading toward airport turned around, video shows
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 06:00 PM
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The trump DOJ was in the process of deporting a good number of detainees without giving them any real due process. The order from SCOTUS stopped a good number of detainees from being deported.
https://bsky.app/profile/laurenmeidasa.bsky.social/post/3lnaoycj5o225



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/legal-fight-raged-ice-buses-filled-venezuelans-heading-airport-turned-rcna202007

Video from Friday night shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement buses full of Venezuelan migrants headed toward an airport in North Texas before abruptly turning around before the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration must, for now, refrain from deporting Venezuelan men based in the state under the Alien Enemies Act.

At least 28 detainees — most, if not all, understood to be Venezuelan nationals — were placed on buses Friday evening at ICE’s Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, and then driven toward Abilene Airport about 30 miles away.

The motorcade — including at least 18 squad cars from various law enforcement agencies with flashing lights along the north Texas highways — left the ICE facility, with some men on board being told they were being deported to El Salvador and some told they were headed to Venezuela, according to the wife of one of the detainees and two lawyers representing other detainees at the facility. Prior to their departure, it was not clear what their destinations would be.

The video, obtained exclusively by NBC News, shows the ICE motorcade pass the airport’s exit and then turn around, looping back to return to the Bluebonnet detention facility.

The Trump administration is seeking to deport the men, who it says are members of the Tren de Aragua gang. It remains unclear whether the government has the authority to apply the Alien Enemies Act to gang members outside of a war situation, and whether adjudications about gang membership are accurate.

The administration has asked the Supreme Court to stop its pause on these would-be deportation flights.

mahatmakanejeeves

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2. The plaintiff, A. A. R. P., is not the one you think.
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 03:45 AM
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Mike Masnick

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I legit had wondered if the AARP organization was getting falsely accused of bringing the lawsuit, and the answer may be... yup...

April 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM

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Josh Gerstein‬
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JUST IN: Following request from advocacy group for older Americans, AARP, Judge Wes Hendrix takes initials AARP out of the caption in Alien Enemies deportation case, shifts lead party. Doc: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25903406-hendrixaarporder042125/

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April 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM

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Josh Gerstein
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FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: The caption of the Supreme Court's early Saturday Alien Enemies Act ruling, AARP v. Trump, is causing heartburn for the elder advocacy group that has nothing to do with it. @AARP has asked a judge to change the name of the case. More: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2025/04/21/trump-backs-hegseth-00132333

April 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM

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