Judge Skeptical of Trump’s Use of Wartime Law

“A federal judge in Washington expressed skepticism on Friday about the Trump administration’s policy of using a powerful and rarely invoked wartime statute to summarily deport immigrants from the country,” the New York Times reports.

“The judge, James Boasberg, suggested at an hourlong hearing that the White House had stretched the meaning of the statute, the Alien Enemies Act, by applying it to scores of Venezuelan immigrants. The administration accused those immigrants of being members of a violent street gang and flew them to El Salvador last weekend with little or no due process.”

Wall Street Journal: Judge raises concerns about Trump’s use of wartime powers for deportations.

CNN: Boasberg says Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act has ‘frightening’ implications.