The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to block a lower court order preventing it from deporting gang members using wartime authority.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld on Wednesday orders that restricted officials from removing members of the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act.
“This case presents fundamental questions about who decides how to conduct sensitive national-security related operations in this country—the President, through Article II, or the Judiciary, through TROs,” Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote on the application. “The Constitution supplies a clear answer: the President. The republic cannot afford a different choice.”
Judge James Boasberg’s order is “forcing the United States to harbor individuals whom national-security officials have identified as members of a foreign terrorist organization bent upon grievously harming Americans,” the application continues.
“Those orders—which are likely to extend additional weeks—now jeopardize sensitive diplomatic negotiations and delicate national-security operations, which were designed to extirpate TdA’s presence in our country before it gains a greater foothold,” it states.
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Shouldn’t that headline read; Trump Administration DEMANDS The Supreme Court block order preventing gang member deportations? This Judicial interference is complete nonsense, and if it were conservative judges blocking Biden, or better yet Obama, I guarantee they would simply ignore the court and press on doing whatever they want.