A coalition of 26 Republican state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on March 18, supporting President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson co-led 24 other state attorneys general in filing the brief, just days after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportations.
In issuing a 14-day restraining order, Boasberg said the act “does not provide a basis for the president’s proclamation given that the terms invasion, predatory incursion really relate to hostile acts perpetrated by any nation and commensurate to war.”…