The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied the Trump administration's request to enforce its ban on transgender individuals serving in the military, upholding a lower court's injunction that allows transgender troops to continue serving. In a separate ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily halted the deportation of Venezuelan migrants under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act invoked by President Donald Trump. The Supreme Court's order prevents the immediate removal of these migrants, who are detained in Texas and suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang, until further notice. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), represented by attorney Lee Gelernt, had filed emergency motions to stop the deportations.
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So maybe we'll soon have the Supreme Court ruling on whether Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation is lawful. The answer to that question turns heavily on how much deference the president is entitled to under that Act. Unless the deference is absolute or near-absolute (which I https://t.co/gPZ8sefKbI
ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt, lead counsel: "These men were in imminent danger of spending their lives in a horrific foreign prison without ever having had a chance to go to court. We are relieved that the Supreme Court has not permitted the administration to whisk them away the https://t.co/n9r0fGkjTg