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(151,125 posts) Tue Apr 22, 2025, 02:52 PM Tuesday

Judge extends ban on deportations from Colorado stemming from Trump's use of 1798 law

Source: AP

Updated 1:50 PM EDT, April 22, 2025

DENVER (AP) — A federal judge has extended her order temporarily preventing the Trump administration from moving or deporting anyone from Colorado under an 18th century wartime act that has become ensnared in a U.S. Supreme Court battle.

District Court Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney cited the high court’s weekend order barring removal of anyone from North Texas, where the ACLU had contended the administration was preparing to deport Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 without giving them the legal notice required under a prior supreme court ruling.

Sweeney continued her freeze on removals from Colorado until May 6 and indicated she may extend it further. She required the federal government to provide 21 days’ notice to anyone it seeks to deport so they can contest their removal. She also expressed skepticism about the legality of Trump’s use of the law to claim the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was invading the United States.

“At a bare minimum, ‘invasion’ means more than the Proclamation’s description of TdA’s ‘infiltrat(ion),’ ‘irregular warfare,’ and ‘hostile actions’ against the United States,” Sweeney wrote.

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Judge extends ban on deportations from Colorado stemming from Trump's use of 1798 law (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Tuesday OP

This will be a fun ruling to read LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #1

I also don't understand why BumRushDaShow Tuesday #3

So will drumpf just put new detainees someplace else, and deport them from there? JoseBalow Tuesday #2

There are a bunch of jurisdictions dealing with cases and it seems districts in each Circuit that have a case BumRushDaShow Tuesday #4

LetMyPeopleVote

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1. This will be a fun ruling to read

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Tue Apr 22, 2025, 03:23 PM

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I never understood how that Alien Enemies Act applied here. This claim was always very stupid and I am shocked that there are DOJ attorneys willing to advance this silly argument

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There needs to adequate notice

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24 hours is not enough

BumRushDaShow

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3. I also don't understand why

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 22, 2025, 03:46 PM

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the SCOTUS even thinks that use of the Alien Enemies Act could apply (as the majority pretty much HAS done, by indicating that deportations could continue using that authority as long as there was "due process", which is antithetical to the Act ).

JoseBalow

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2. So will drumpf just put new detainees someplace else, and deport them from there?

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Tue Apr 22, 2025, 03:36 PM

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The limited scope of the ruling seems like a set-up for a game of legal whack-a-mole.

BumRushDaShow

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4. There are a bunch of jurisdictions dealing with cases and it seems districts in each Circuit that have a case

Reply to JoseBalow (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 22, 2025, 04:04 PM

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are ruling based on what was filed in that Circuit, and only having it apply to that jurisdiction.

Apparently, a "nationwide injunction" declaration by a single district, has been called out as "overreach", and so judges are starting to keep it narrow to wherever the suit is filed.

And yes they HAVE been moving people around to preferred districts although the courts have demanded that they RETURN them to the place where they were originally detained and that would be the jurisdiction where any suits should be filed.

In other words, they have been snatching people out of blue states and moving them to detention sites in their preferred red states under the 5th Circuit (e.g., Louisiana) as part of the continuation of their "judge shopping" nonsense. The courts have so far said - "Umm no. Move them BACK to where they were originally detained."

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