In El Salvador. Pool photo by Alex Brandon
The Supreme Court said that the Trump administration could continue using a wartime powers act to deport Venezuelan migrants, for now.
The ruling, however, did not address the merits of the case. Rather, the justices said that the migrants’ lawyers had filed their lawsuit in the wrong court.
The Supreme Court also paused a lower court’s order that had required the U.S. to bring back a Maryland resident whom it had mistakenly deported.
Trump called Judge James Boasberg, who is overseeing the challenge to his deportation flights, a “Radical Left Lunatic.” His reputation and his appointment by George W. Bush suggest otherwise. Read about him.