Supreme Court hands Trump massive loss
The Supreme Court dealt President Donald Trump a big blow on Friday by blocking the administration's mass deportations of accused gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
The Trump administration has been using this act by declaring certain groups of migrants terrorists, which under the DOJ's interpretation of the AEA allows them to be removed as an invading force. Most judges in the country have come down against Trump on this, although one Trump-appointed judge in Pennsylvania partially ruled in favor of the DOJ's interpretation.
CNN legal analyst Paula Reid broke down the significance of the new ruling, which had multiple conservative justices ruling against the president.
"This is a loss for President Trump, but this is not the final word," said Reid. "We know that he wants to speed up deportations," she said. "And as part of that plan, he has invoked the Alien Enemies Act, which allows him to proceed with deportations with less review than he would otherwise."
"Of course, this has set off litigation across the country and here today, the Supreme Court has blocked the president from moving forward with deportations under this act, for a group of immigrants in Northern Texas," Reid continued.
"So [they're] siding with a group of Venezuelans in Texas who are worried that they were going to be imminently removed under this authority. So [they're] taking this issue and [they're] sending it back down to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to decide certain questions, important questions here, particularly about how much notice these individuals received in terms of the process that they are due. This is one of the issues that has come up in a lot of these cases."
"Now, while this is, again, a significant loss for the president, this is temporary," she added. "And this underlying legal fight continues to play out across the country."