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May 17 2025
05:55 am
The Supreme Court on Friday kept a block on the Federal administration’s use of a rarely invoked wartime power to deport migrants in Northern Texas and said administration officials had not given those targeted for removal last month sufficient time to challenge their deportations.
We can only hope the Supreme Court is waking up to this administration's authoritarian ideas.
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