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The justices did not address the broader question about whether Trump officials can legally invoke the Alien Enemies Act to target alleged gang members
A divided Supreme Court on Friday kept a block on the Trump administration’s use of a rarely invoked wartime power to deport migrants in Northern Texas and said administration officials had not given those targeted for removal last month sufficient time to challenge their deportations. The majority called the detainees’ interests “particularly weighty” because of the risk of removal to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador where the migrants could face indefinite detention. President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target a Venezuelan gang is one of the most controversial parts of his mass deportation efforts, which are at the center of increasingly tense standoffs between his administration and the courts.