#alien enemies act

MAGA core belief is lawlessness for me, illegal deportation for thee.

Misusing laws from 1798 is a reflection of conservative legal society installing unqualified judges and MAGA SCOTUS neck-deep in perjury.

Harry Litman at Talking Feds:

We learned earlier this week that we narrowly averted an effort by Trump and Stephen Miller to suspend habeas corpus. Miller’s brainstorm was utterly tyrannical and anti-constitutional. More on that below. Miller was reacting to the Supreme Court’s April 2025 ruling in the Alien Enemies Act cases, which held that the detainees were entitled to challenge their detentions in court via habeas corpus before being expelled. That bare process was too much for Miller, the deputy chief of staff and, by all accounts, the mastermind behind the deportation campaign.

As reported by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Miller directed the Justice Department to research the legal basis for suspending habeas corpus. Trump apparently was receptive—he had been asking advisers about Lincoln’s suspension of habeas during the Civil War for a source of historical cover. Miller’s scheme for evading the Court’s ruling was to have the president simply declare that the immigration situation at the southern border constituted an “invasion” within the meaning of the Constitution. On that basis, immigrants could be denied any access to a court at all. They could simply be made to disappear until they resurfaced in whatever country the United States chose to send them to. No hearing. No judge. No process of any sort.

Miller’s crazed and radical idea was narrowly beaten back within the administration. The unlikely hero was Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary. Scharf’s conservative bona fides and dedication to Trump are beyond reproach. Harvard-trained, he had helped develop the legal arguments in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case as well as the presidential immunity case that prevailed at the Supreme Court. Scharf sent a memo to Trump’s Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, laying out the collision course that Miller was recklessly pursuing. Scharf did not invoke the sanctity of immigrant rights or lecture about democratic norms. His argument was purely pragmatic: this will get struck down, and when it does, the ruling will hobble everything that comes after. Still, the memo did not immediately carry the day.

Miller, for one, remained bullish on the idea. Having first tried to charm Scharf and failed, he had come to see the staff secretary as an obstacle to be routed around rather than a colleague to be persuaded. The day after Scharf’s memo landed on Wiles’s desk, Trump surfaced the idea at a cabinet meeting, obliquely referencing “three very highly respected presidents” and their options for going around the courts.

[...] Habeas corpus has been suspended four times in American history: during the Civil War, Reconstruction, World War II in Hawaii in the wake of Pearl Harbor, and in the 1905 insurrection in the Philippines. Three of those four suspensions were by Congress. The one exception was Lincoln, at the outset of the Civil War, acting during a long congressional recess with Confederate troops threatening at the doorstep of Washington itself. Even then, after the courts told Lincoln he had overstepped, he eventually went back to Congress and in 1863 secured legislative authorization.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will continue to block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan men detained in northern Texas while they pursue a challenge to their removals under the wartime Alien Enemies Act.

The order from the high court grants an emergency injunction sought by lawyers for a group of Venezuelan migrants who they said faced "imminent" risk of removal under President Trump's March proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. It maintains an early directive issued by the Supreme Court last month that temporarily prohibited the government from removing the Venezuelan migrants held at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, under the 18th-century law.

The Supreme Court's April order, issued overnight, blocked the deportations "until further order of this court."

Friday's order was unsigned, and two justices dissented: Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.

I hope those still fighting for this country stop that man

But honestly shame on you if you voted for this man, you know who you are, and that’s something you should live with for supporting a racist criminal as your president. There is nothing loving and forgiving in that action and you should be ashamed of yourself for supporting hatred and discrimination. Last time this act was in place, Japanese US CITIZENS were being sent to these camps in the US simply because they were who they were.

What do you think happens now? Who do you think they’re going to target? Clearly ppl of color. People that don’t speak English as their first language or at all. Likely members in the lgbtq, trans people to be more specific. Simply people HE doesn’t seem legal. It doesn’t matter anymore that we were born here or simply have a right to be here. I say this cause they’re already detaining US citizens that ironically voted for him and they’re shocked they got detained. So what do you think happens now if he succeeds?

This is about our own erasure.

The above two are different cases.

Meanwhile the anti-1st Amendment round up and illegal detention/deportation continues.

US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts

Rubio's such a horrible person that he's proud of it.

Another bullshit illegal deportation attempt based on Government lies.

Now if the Democratic Politicians would actually get on board....