"The Supreme Court remanded this case to us when the three named petitioners were still in the country," the order goes on. "But we have since learned that the government has removed them." The post 5th Circuit declines to rule on Trump's claimed Alien Enemies Act powers despite SCOTUS prodding — but James Ho still had some thoughts first appeared on Law & Crime.

The court dismissed a case over the Alien Enemies Act in a messy conclusion to a long-running legal battle that had seemed destined to end up before the Supreme Court. By Alan Feuer For nearly a year, the American Civil Liberties Union has been waiting for ...

Today, the en banc US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed, as moot, W.M.M. v. Trump, an important case about whether President Donald Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a tool for peacetime mass deportation is legal.

President Donald Trump loves the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. At a campaign rally in Arizona in 2024, Trump said that when he was elected president he would use the act to target undocumented criminal immigrants. "Think of that—1798," he said with a laugh.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked President Donald Trump's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act against Venezuelan gang members, delivering the first appellate ruling to declare the administration's wartime authority illegal during peacetime.

President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a criminal street gang. But the text of the Alien Enemies Act ...

A judge in California on Monday blocked the Trump administration from using the wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants in the Los Angeles area, ruling that the government hasn't promised adequate due process. The ruling by U.S. District ...