Donald Trump on Saturday hit a legal roadblock.
The President over the weekend "invoked rarely used war powers in a bid to deport foreign nationals that the federal government deems to be members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua," according to a Politico report.
But that plan was thwarted by a judge immediately after.
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Politico's Kyle Cheney broke the new development on social media.
"Judge Boasberg has issued a sweeping block of Trump’s effort to invoke wartime [powers] to quickly deport Venezuelan nationals, telling the administration to go as far as turning around planes already in the air," he wrote.
In an article, Cheney and Myah Ward write that the decision "comes hours after a federal judge issued an urgent ruling temporarily blocking the removal of five Venezuelans."
The report notes that, "The order by Boasberg was issued with unusual urgency, before the Trump administration had a chance to respond."
"But the administration quickly filed with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking Saturday afternoon for an emergency stay of Boasberg’s ruling. In their motion, the administration said that the argument over the use of the Alien Enemies Act was hypothetical — which is no longer the case — and 'fundamentally a political question to be resolved by the President.'" it states. "Boasberg’s Saturday order prevents any of the five plaintiffs from being deported for 14 days."
NEWS: Judge Boasberg has issued a sweeping block of Trump’s effort to invoke wartime Powers’s to quickly deport Venezuelan nationals, telling the administration to go as far as turning around planes already in the air. https://t.co/3AsW0aDWB9
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 15, 2025