There was another narrow but significant win for the Trump administration at the Supreme Court today. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled the administration could use the Alien Enemies Act against foreign gang members for now. However, there is a catch. The Justices didn’t actually rule on whether the use of the act was correct, only that the challenge brought against it was made in the wrong venue.
The decision marks a victory for the Trump administration, although the ruling is narrow and focused on the proper venue for the cases, rather than on the administration’s use of a centuries-old law to justify its decision to send planeloads of Venezuelans to El Salvador with little to no due process…
“The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia,” according to the court’s order, which was brief and unsigned, as…
