{"id":4983,"date":"2025-03-29T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/dc-circuit-upholds-temporary-block-on-trumps-alien-enemies-act-deportations\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:03:00","slug":"dc-circuit-upholds-temporary-block-on-trumps-alien-enemies-act-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/dc-circuit-upholds-temporary-block-on-trumps-alien-enemies-act-deportations\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Circuit Upholds Temporary Block on Trump\u2019s Alien Enemies Act Deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday upheld a judge\u2019s order temporarily blocking President Donald Trump\u2019s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan nationals that the federal government contends are Tren de Aragua gang members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, who was silent during Monday\u2019s arguments in the case, penned a concurring statement in which she seemed unimpressed with the federal government&#8217;s defense of Trump\u2019s use of the 1798 law, which grants the president power to detain and expel \u201cenemy aliens\u201d when the United States is at war or under \u201cinvasion or predatory incursion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday upheld a judge\u2019s order temporarily blocking President Donald Trump\u2019s invocation of the Alien Enemies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[911,5223,504,610,5225,5224,1943,963,483],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-act","tag-alien","tag-block","tag-circuit","tag-deportations","tag-enemies","tag-temporary","tag-trumps","tag-upholds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}