‘Federal courts have no role to play,’ Trump tells SCOTUS in latest deportation case filing

‘Federal courts have no role to play,’ Trump tells SCOTUS in latest deportation case filing

"That is the president's call alone; the federal courts have no role to play." So argued the Trump administration in a recent legal filing submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court. To call the administration's position a naked assertion of unchecked executive power would be a severe understatement. To understand why, let's review how we got here. On April 7, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that if President Donald Trump wants to deport an alleged "alien …

Trump Asks Supreme Court to End Deportation Protections for Venezuelans in the US

President Donald Trump has taken significant legal action regarding the deportation protections for Venezuelan nationals living in the United States. The Trump administration’s recent emergency appeal to the Supreme Court. They appealed a federal district court’s decision to temporarily stay the decision to withdraw protections for people like Abrego Garcia, one of some 300,000 Venezuelans now living under temporary protected status (TPS). Along…