The Supreme Court on Monday handed the Trump administration a significant legal victory, allowing President Donald Trump to resume deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members under a wartime-era law invoked for the first time in peacetime.
In a 5–4 decision, the justices lifted a lower court’s order that had blocked Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 statute historically reserved for wartime threats. Trump used the law in March to authorize the rapid deportation of members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang newly designated a terrorist organization by the State Department.
The ruling means immigration officials can move forward with removals so long as detainees are given notice and a chance to challenge their deportation through habeas petitions — just not through class actions filed in
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