The Latest: Supreme Court allows Trump administration to resume deportations under Alien Enemies Act

President Donald Trump arrives at the White House on Marine One, Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Washington. Credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted an order blocking President Donald Trump ’s administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used 18th-century wartime law.
In a bitterly divided 5-4 decision, the court said that the migrants, whom the administration has accused of being gang members, must get a chance to challenge their deportation before they are taken out of the country.
But the conservative majority said the legal challenges must take place in Texas instead of a Washington courtroom and that the Trump administration must give them “reasonable time” to go to court.
Earlier Monday, Trump said during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington that the U.S. is holding direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program, warning that Tehran would be in “great danger” if the talks aren’t successful.
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Trump administration fires senior Navy officer at NATO. She appeared on a ‘woke’ list
U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO’s military committee, was fired over the weekend by the Trump administration, U.S. officials said Monday.
Although no reason was given, officials said it was apparently tied to comments she has made that supported diversity in the force.

Shipping containers are stored at Bensenville intermodal terminal in Franklin Park, Ill., Sunday, April 6, 2025. Credit: AP/Nam Y. Huh
The officials said they believe Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the decision last week, but it was unclear whether he received direction from Trump. Three U.S. officials spoke about the firing on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters.
Chatfield was on a list of senior military officers targeted as “woke” by the conservative American Accountability Foundation, which sent a letter to Hegseth saying that “purging the woke from the military is imperative.”
Chatfield is the third top female officer to be fired since Trump took office. Trump and Hegseth have been vocal in their insistence that so-called “woke” policies are dead.
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