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| Top justice turns against SCOTUS move to halt Trump's deportations |
| 2025-04-21 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Illegal migrant buses heading to airport is forced to turn around after bombshell SCOTUS ruling. Extraordinary footage has emerged showing busloads of aVenezuelan detainees in the process of being deported before a stunning Supreme Court intervention. The buses, loaded with at least 28 migrants, were heading from ICE's Bluebonnet Detention Center to Abilene Airport on Friday, according to NBC. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement buses were closely followed by a motorcade of 18 squad cars from varying law enforcement agencies. The detainees - primarily Venezuelan - were driven back to the detention center after a bombshell Supreme Court ruling. Justice Samuel Alito, one of the nation's top ranking legal authorities, has since issued a fiery dissent to the decision - which forced the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportation of any Venezuelans held in a northern Texas detention facility under an 18th-century wartime law. In his written ruling, Alito cited a government lawyer who insisted the administration had no intention of deporting anyone on Good Friday or Easter Saturday. Judy Maldonado Rall, whose husband was reportedly on the bus at the time, said her husband was told by a guard he was headed toward the hellhole El Salvadorian prison where Trump has previously sent more than 200 suspected gang members. She said after the buses were turned around, a guard told her husband: 'Well, you were lucky you were sent back because you were going to El Salvador, not Venezuela.' That evening, the Supreme Court was weighing an urgent request to block the administration from conducting any deportations. Simultaneously, Trump's nemesis Judge James Boasberg was hearing a case on the same matter. Lee Gelernt, a lawyer representing the American Civil Liberties Union, told the court: 'We hear they are on buses on the way to the airport.' That sprung Boasberg into action, and he asked Justice Department lawyer Drew Ensign to ensure no Bluebonnet detainees were being deported under the Alien Enemies Act on Friday night. Boasberg was burned by the administration before, after his ruling to turn planes carrying deportees around to ensure due process went ignored. By early Saturday morning, a 7-2 Supreme Court majority ruled Trump must not deport any Venezuelans held in the northern Texas detention facility. His administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to justify sending hundreds of suspected gang members and illegal migrants to a hellish El Salvadorian prison last month. Alito's sharp dissent argued the court acted 'literally in the middle of the night' and with 'dubious factual support' to take the extraordinary measure of blocking the government. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 The reason is to protect lawyer’s jobs. They do not make money if there is not a trial. Trump is a business man, not a grifter! |
| Posted by: Old Salty 2025-04-21 13:27 |
| #1 To me, it looks like SCOTUS has held deportations of Venezuelans under the Enemies Act only. It seems like the government has a strong case for the legality of the process so this is more of a delay. I don’t see any indication that regular deportations are on hold. Gang members and criminals continue to be eligible for regular deportation. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-04-21 12:12 |