The Justice Department laid out its case on Thursday for why President Donald Trump believes the Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua has made a “predatory incursion” into the United States, which the DOJ says allowed Trump to invoke the Alien Enemies Act.
The full panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit heard arguments in a challenge to Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, grilling DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign on the president’s basis for doing so, and at times appearing skeptical of the reasoning.
The judges questioned Ensign on what the difference between a full invasion and a “predatory incursion” is. The Justice Department lawyer disagreed with a previous appeals court panel’s ruling that rejected the finding of
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