DOJ asks Supreme Court to reject ACLU request to pause deportations

BY ELVIA LIMON 04/19/25 09:33 PM ET


The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., is seen on Tuesday, March 25, 2025.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Saturday afternoon to reject an emergency request to temporarily pause the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants to El Salvador swiftly detained in portions of Texas.

In a court filing, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the high court to “dissolve its current administrative stay” issued early Saturday and to allow “lower courts to address the relevant legal and factual questions.”

The emergency order temporarily blocks the deportations until the high court resolves the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) emergency appeal, filed hours before the pause over concerns that more deportation flights were imminent. … Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, two of the court’s leading conservatives, dissented.

In Sauer’s filing, he claimed that lawyers for the migrants had “improperly skilled over the lower courts,” making their request that the Supreme Court step in “fatally premature.”

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