The Supreme Court’s TPS Ruling: The High Cost of Trump

by Mark M. Bello The United States Supreme Court has delivered a decision that should jolt every voter who has ever underestimated what’s at stake in recent presidential elections. The Court sided with the Trump Administration’s right to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans—despite the fact that the program was created by the Biden […]

Due Process & the Alien Enemies Act: A Cautious Cop-Out

Yesterday, in a somewhat insignificant 7-2 decision, the United States Supreme rejected the Trump administration’s request to immediately resume deportations of Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). Instead of ruling, once and for all, that the Fifth Amendment prevents Trump’s 24-hour notice nonsense, SCOTUS remanded the matter to a federal appeals court for further review.