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Trump asks US Supreme Court to intervene in deportations fight
President Donald Trump’s administration requested the Supreme Court's involvement in the legal fight over the Alien Enemies Act, which allows for rapid deportations.
The emergency appeal aims to overturn US District Judge James Boasberg's order blocking further deportations under the act.
The Department of Justice is seeking a temporary stay of Boasberg's order to allow the Supreme Court time to review the case.
Five Venezuelans, challenging the use of the law, filed a lawsuit against the administration regarding national security operations.
Concerns about the erosion of the separation of powers have been raised recently, for example by the flight of Venezuelan suspected criminals out of the country without legal basis.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday called on the Supreme Court to lift the ban imposed by a federal judge on deporting immigrants under the "enemy alien" law, previously invoked only in times of war.
Trump invoked the Foreign Enemies Act for the first time since World War II to justify the deportation of hundreds of people under a presidential proclamation that qualifies the Aragua Train gang as an invading force.