The Trump administration’s plan to use powers under the Alien Enemies Act for deporting Venezuelan detainees has been put on hold by the Supreme Court. This order was made in less than eight hours after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) requested emergency relief, and was made without waiting for a government response, or waiting for the dissent of Justice Samuel Alito. The ruling currently the removal of detainees from the United States. This decision under these circumstances may reflect a potential shift in the right-leaning Supreme Court, which is preparing to take up challenges regarding the extent of lower court judges’ authority to block a president’s policies on a nationwide basis.

The order from the Supreme Court directs that detainees should not be removed until further notice. No deportation flights are currently planned, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign said, but the right is reserved by the government to proceed later. “Trump is trying to break the government. To control all its levers, he needs a complicit judiciary to go along with a complacent Congress,” wrote Joyce Vance, a former federal prosecutor.

Ms. Vance went on to say, “The Supreme Court seems to have an inkling of the fix they’ve put themselves in, with Trump trying to accumulate power at the courts’ expense.”

Source: The (Raleigh) News & Observer