Solicitor General Asks Justices to Reject A.C.L.U. Request to Pause Deportations
Source: NYT
Trump administration lawyers urged the Supreme Court in a court filing Saturday afternoon to reject an emergency request to temporarily block deportations of Venezuelans under a rarely invoked 18th-century wartime law.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to "dissolve" the administrative stay they had issued early Saturday that blocked the deportations while they considered the application, and to allow lower courts to weigh in before intervening further in the case.
The deportations remain paused while the justices consider the matter. In emergency applications, the Supreme Court can act at any time.
In his filing, Mr. Sauer called the request by lawyers for the migrants that the justices step in "fatally premature" and argued that they had "improperly skipped over the lower courts."
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/19/us/trump-news
Here's a link to the Supreme Court's Saturday afternoon ruling.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A1007/356072/20250419170105032_A.A.R.P.%20Opp.%20FINAL.pdf
This is about the previous ruling (1 a.m. Saturday) that the Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to dissolve.
The court did not grant or deny an application filed by lawyers for the detainees, but effectively hit pause on the case, which affects people currently held within the jurisdiction of the Northern District of Texas.
“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,” the brief order said.
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