SCOTUS Vacates Judge Boasberg’s Order Blocking Deportation Of Tren de Aragua

 From Legal Insurrection: "Supreme Court Vacates Judge Boasberg’s TROs As To Tren de Aragua Under Alien Enemies Act." As you probably remember, President Trump had declared certain foreign criminal gangs to be alien enemies under the Alien Enemies Act, allowing them to be summarily deported. But Judge James Boasberg, a district judge in the judicial district for the District of Columbia, issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking those deportations, even going so far as to order that a plane flying these gang members to a prison in El Salvador turn around in mid-flight and return them to the United States.

    The Supreme Court has vacated the TRO on procedural grounds, holding that the suit by the gang members was the equivalent of a writ of habeas corpus, which must be brought in a court in the district where the person is being detained. Therefore, the court ruled, Judge Boasberg lacked jurisdiction to hear the case or issue the TRO. Notwithstanding what other news stories seem to indicate, the court did not decide whether the Alien Enemies Act could be applied to the gang members and indicated that the suspected gang members are entitled to at least some due process on the issue of whether they are gang members. 

    But at least they are out of the District of the District of Columbia courts and the matter will have to be pursued before a court in Texas where the gang members are being detained. 

• Related: "A Third Of All DC District Judges Were Not Born In United States"--The Federalist. As the author notes, "[w]hile country of origin doesn’t come up in most jobs, it is worth asking if judges with ties to foreign nations and cultures are the right ones to make decisions affecting the U.S. military or immigration."
• Related: "Judge Boasberg is not my president"--Don Surber. An excerpt:

    Why is Judge Boasberg so insistent that we keep child rapists and other terrorists in our country? Follow the money. Like many other politicians, he benefits from the mass refusal of Democrat presidents and the second Bush to enforce federal immigration laws.

    Boasberg’s daughter Katharine defends MS-13 and TDA gangsters, receiving pay from an NGO, Partners in Justice, which raked in $3.3 million in 2023 year from the federal government.