You’ve likely been following the biggest story of the weekend, on President Trump pressing into service the Alien Enemies Act from 1798 to remove known criminals, many of whom are members of Venezuela’s violent Tren de Aragua crime syndicate, from the country.
The move was anticipated early on Saturday, so progressives started things in motion even before the president’s action. Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued an order preemtively blocking the administration’s use of the law; my colleague Streiff picks up the chain of events from late Saturday:
A DC judge ordered the Trump administration to turn around flights deporting known members of the Venezuelan-based designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Tren de Aragua and return them to the US after he entered a temporary restraining order on the part of five gang members and created a “class” of…
