Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn Boasberg's ruling blocking him from using the Alien Enemies Act for deportations [View all]

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Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn Boasberg’s ruling blocking him from using the Alien Enemies Act for deportations

By John Fritze, CNN
4 minute read
Updated 10:59 AM EDT, Fri March 28, 2025

(CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to wade into the fraught legal battle over enforcing the Alien Enemies Act, the wartime authority he used to rapidly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.

The emergency appeal, which asks the justices to overturn an order from US District Judge James Boasberg blocking further deportations under the act, further thrusts the Supreme Court into Trump’s whirlwind. It is perhaps the most significant matter now pending on the court’s docket dealing with his second term and it sits at the center of an explosive confrontation between the White House and the judiciary.

“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,” Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris told the Supreme Court. “The Constitution supplies a clear answer: the President. The republic cannot afford a different choice.”

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