To hear White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller tell it, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision Monday to lift Judge James Boasberg’s temporary restraining order, the Trump administration is free to start sending Venezuelans to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act today.
“This was a huge, I mean monumental victory for President Trump,” Miller said on Fox News after the decision. “Those monsters can now be hunted down and expelled from this country with speed, force, and efficiency.”
This is not what the Supreme Court held at all.
What the majority did say is that the proper method for challenging the government’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport them is through habeas corpus petition, not an Administrative Procedures Act claim, which
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