The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trump's assertion that judges don't have the power to review his use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang. The three-panel court ruled that a judge's ban temporarily barring such deportations could remain in place.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told students at Georgetown University that judges should be “fiercely independent” in responding to growing challenges to the rule of law.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to wade into the fraught legal battle over enforcing the Alien Enemies Act, the wartime authority he used to rapidly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.