Venezuelans about to be deported seek Supreme Court's emergency help
Source: USA Today
April 18, 2025, 7:01 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON – Attorneys for Venezuelans being held in Texas filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court on Friday to prevent what they said is their imminent threat of deportation without getting a chance to put up a legal fight.
Their request sets up another potential showdown between the Trump administration and the federal courts over President Donald Trump’s claims of broad executive power amid a hardline approach to immigration.
The administration is already balking at a federal judge’s order to show what it’s doing to bring back a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador.
And earlier this week, another federal judge found probable cause to hold the administration in contempt for "deliberately and gleefully" violating his order last month halting flights of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a wartime law.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/18/venezuelans-deported-supreme-courts-emergency/83164863007/
Apparently Boasberg is claiming that he "doesn't have the power". Am guessing too that it's due to a jurisdictional issue. Boasberg is in D.C. and this group is in TX.
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I am hopeful that there is proper standing, jurisdictional clarity etc to enable SCOTUS to take this. It tanks the SC credibility if they don’t, in my opinion.
Smelvis has reached the point where things get much harder for him. The psychoses of his cabinet will reveal themselves and some things will spiral out of their hands. I’m hopeful that this is the thin edge of the wedge.
