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The ruling, which is limited to the Southern District of Texas, prohibited the administration from using the wartime law because the president’s claims about a
Venezuelan gang do not add up to an “invasion.”
By Alan Feuer, Mattathias Schwartz and Charlie Savage
May 1, 2025 | Updated 2:33 p.m. ET
A federal judge on Thursday permanently barred the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelans it has deemed to be criminals from the Southern District of Texas, saying that the White House’s use of the statute was illegal.
The decision by the judge, Fernando Rodriguez Jr., was the most expansive ruling
yet by any of the numerous jurists who are currently hearing challenges to the White House’s efforts to employ the powerful but rarely invoked law as part of
its wide-ranging deportation plans.
The 36-page ruling by Judge Rodriguez, a President Trump appointee, amounted to a philosophical rejection of the White House’s attempts to transpose the Alien
Enemies Act, which was passed in 1798 as the nascent United States was threatened by war with France, into the context of modern-day immigration policy.
The Supreme Court has already said that any Venezuelans the White House wants to
expel under Mr. Trump’s proclamation invoking the act must be given a chance to
challenge their removal. But Judge Rodriguez’s ruling went further, saying that
the White House had improperly stretched the meaning of the law, which is supposed to be used only against members of a hostile foreign nation in times of
declared war or during a military invasion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/texas-judge-trump-alien-enemies-act.html
There is neither a declared war nor a military invasion conducted by Venezuela. The law does not apply.
Another Trump court loss — yeah, man!
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