The Trump administration can immediately resume its summary deportations of anyone it labels an “enemy alien” to an El Salvador prison widely accused of torturing inmates — as long as it affords them some indeterminate extra time to challenge their detention, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
The ruling from the divided high court marked a victory for President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration operations, revoking lower court orders that sought to halt the administration’s new law enforcement tactics on humanitarian and constitutional grounds.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority was convinced by the Trump administration’s most technical argument: that a class action lawsuit seeking to stop these rapid removals was filed in the wrong district — the nation’s capital.