The Trump administration on March 28 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a case involving President Donald Trump’s declaration of an invasion by a terrorist gang.
Administration lawyers asked justices to stay lower court orders, which would enable officials to resume deportations of illegal immigrants under a law called the Alien Enemies Act.
Trump said in a recent proclamation that Tren de Aragua has been perpetrating “an invasion of and predatory incursion into the United States.” He directed officials to apprehend and deport members of the gang.
A federal judge blocked the deportations, and an appeals court on March 26 upheld the block….