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A Timeline of Legal Battles Over Trump’s Use of the Alien Enemies Act

Challenges to the administration’s use of the 18th-century wartime law have gone all the way to the Supreme Court. Here’s where they stand.

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President Trump in the Oval Office this week. He has said he respects the Supreme Court, but his administration’s immigration policies have raised questions about whether judicial orders are being followed.

Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans

The case appears set to return to the Supreme Court in a decisive battle over President Trump’s use of the 18th-century law to deport migrants.

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The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit was the first time that federal appellate judges had weighed in on the substantive question of whether President Trump had properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
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