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Trump elevates deportations case

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28.03.2025
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It’s Friday! Well, this has been a doozy of a week. But good news, Washington’s cherry blossoms just officially reached peak bloom! 🌸

 

In today's issue:

  • Supreme Court may get involved in deportations case
  • White House officials instructed to save Signal chats
  • Stefanik’s pulled nomination spooks GOP
  • ChatGPT’s startling new image generator

 

Hey, sorry to bother you guys, but we need you to settle something:

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow migrant deportations using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act after a federal judge blocked the effort.

Back story: The White House used planes to send deported Venezuelan migrants, who it claims are part of a gang, to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg blocked the effort, setting off a fierce battle with the Trump administration.

Trump’s argument for the Alien Enemies Act?: “The 1798 Alien Enemies Act enables migrants to be summarily deported amid a declared war or an ‘invasion’ by a foreign nation. The law has been leveraged just three previous times, all during wars, but Trump contends he can use it because the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is effectively invading the United States.”

Read The Hill’s reporting: ‘DOJ asks Supreme Court to intervene in deportation flights case’

 

Save them for posterity … or comply with the law:

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to save all communication that happened on the Signal messaging app when a journalist was unintentionally added to a high-level national security conversation.

The ironic part: U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has been feuding with Trump over Venezuelan deportations for the past several weeks, was randomly assigned to this case.

Senate Republicans are taking that one step further: GOP senators are warning that *any* conversation happening between Trump officials on the Signal app should be saved to determine whether any classified intelligence was compromised. This is to comply with the Federal Records Act.

The two top members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and ranking member Jack Reed (D-R.I.), have worked on a letter to formally instruct the Trump administration to comply, Wicker told The Hill’s Alexander Bolton.

 

➤ HILLARY CLINTON HAS SOME THOUGHTS:

Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton railed against the Trump administration’s Signal app leak. “It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me,” she wrote in a New York Times op-ed this morning. “It’s the stupidity.”

“Don’t let the swagger fool you. Mr. Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (of group chat fame) are apparently more focused on performative fights over wokeness than preparing for real fights with........

© The Hill