‘We Cannot Give Everyone a Trial’: Trump Accuses Supreme Court of Caving to ‘Radical Left’ In Pausing Deportations to Prison
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President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to block his administration’s use of an 18th-century law to deport immigrants and accused the justices of caving to the “Radical Left.”
The Supreme Court issued an emergency order early Saturday morning halting the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport migrants. The ruling paused efforts by federal agents to transport certain migrants — alleged to be affiliated with gangs — to a mass prison in El Salvador without immigration hearings.
“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 majority wrote.
The court ruled 7-2 against the administration’s motion. Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.
In a five-page opinion, Alito criticized the majority’s decision, calling it “unprecedented and legally questionable.”
He wrote, “In sum, literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order.”
Alito added, “I refused to join the Court’s order because we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.”
Trump praised Alito and blasted the court’s decision on his Truth Social page.
“I’m doing what I was elected to do, remove criminals from our Country, but the Courts don’t seem to want me to do that,” Trump wrote in a statement. He added:
My team is fantastic, doing an incredible job, however, they are being stymied at every turn by even the U.S. Supreme Court, which I have such great respect for, but which seemingly doesn’t want me to send violent criminals and terrorists back to Venezuela, or any other Country, for that matter — People that came here illegally!
The Courts are intimidated by the Radical Left who are, “playing the Ref.” Great Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito correctly wants to dissolve the pause on deportations. He is right on this! If we don’t get these criminals out of our Country, we are not going to have a Country any longer. We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years. We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of Illegals we are sending out of the Country. Such a thing is not possible to do. What a ridiculous situation we are in.
Trump concluded his statement with a familiar refrain: “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
