President Donald Trump will deliver remarks outside the Department of Justice at 3 p.m. Friday and then he will travel to Mar-a-Lago.
His remarks come as the stock market slides. Fallout continues from Trump’s tariff policy, with new levies slapped on alcohol, steel and aluminum imports, as well as his administration’s reshaping of the federal government after layoffs began at the Department of Education.
Meanwhile, a shutdown seems averted after top Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer said he would vote in support of a stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of Friday’s deadline.
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizens pursuant to his recent proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act.
Less than two hours after the president attempted to invoke the 18th century law to deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued a temporary restraining order that blocks the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens currently in custody pursuant to the president’s recent proclamation.
Despite a federal judge halting the administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport five migrants, the White House announced Saturday that it had done so in order to deport Venezuelan migrants.
Lawyers with the Department of Justice asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to enter an administrative stay of the lower court’s temporary restraining order, which blocks the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport noncitizens.
“This Court should halt this massive, unauthorized imposition on the Executive’s authority to remove dangerous aliens who pose threats to the American people,” the filing said.
The government argued that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg overstepped his authority, declined to hear a response from the Trump administration before ruling and is “setting the stage to potentially inject itself into all such removals nationwide.”
Boasberg previously oversaw the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court and was nominated to federal judicial roles by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
President Donald Trump signed the six-month government funding bill that was approved by Congress Friday night, according to the White House.
The bill was crafted by GOP leaders and backed by Trump.
A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelans who have been detained in Texas.
The TRO will be in effect for two weeks.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit against the federal government arguing they were moved to detention centers in Texas intended to be “staging facilities to remove Venezuelan men under the [Alien Enemies Act of 1798],”
The organization contended the federal government misidentified the plaintiffs as gang members.
Full-time employees at Voice of America received an email this morning from human resources saying they have been placed on paid administrative leave, according to a copy of the memo that was obtained ABC News.
This includes members of the VOA team covering the White House who are part of the radio pool.
The email says VOA staffers while on administrative leave are not allowed to access government buildings or systems and must be reachable by personal email and cellphone.
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in anticipation of the president invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Although there has been no announcement of the act being invoked, the lawsuit claims the ACLU and other representing parties have reason to believe the president has invoked “or will imminently invoke” the AEA to speed up the administration’s mass deportation goals and target the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang.
The ACLU is representing five plaintiffs they believe have been moved to detention centers in Texas intended to be “staging facilities to remove Venezuelan men under the AEA,” court documents show.
