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Trump Tests Judge's Ban On Deportation Flights - The Monday AM Quickie 3/17/25

By Jacob Silverman —

Psst: The president took a $75 million bribe and we all saw it. –Jacob

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THE BIG NEWS

Trump Tests Judge's Ban On Deportation Flights

On Saturday, the Trump administration deported 261 migrants to El Salvador, where the authoritarian Bukele government has offered to take US prisoners for a fee. Some of those people were deported under an authority that Trump claimed by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which has only been invoked a handful of times and only when the country was officially at war. Trump's "secret proclamation" calls for deporting Venezuelan people who were 14 years or older.

The Trump administration carried out some of the deportations – and may be gearing up for more – despite a judge's order blocking Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act. On X, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele joked, "Oopsie, too late" over a link to an article about the judge ordering deportations to stop.

The White House denied that it had defied the judge's order and claimed that the deportation flights occurred before the order was issued. Axios reported that the Trump admin "ignored" the court order in a process orchestrated by ghoulish Trump advisor Stephen Miller. They expect the issue to end up in the Supreme Court, which will side with Trump.

Whatever happens, we seem to be uncomfortably close to the administration sidelining the judiciary entirely by simply ignoring it. The federal courts are supposed to be pretty much the last defense against Trump and Musk's creeping assault on American democracy, but whatever authority this co-equal branch of government might have seems dangerously imperiled.

Trump Ramps Up Military Campaign Against Houthis

US forces bombed Houthi targets in Yemen over the weekend. The attack, which may signal the beginning of a longer military campaign in Yemen by the supposedly anti-war president, was supposed to be a "signal to Iran," which is aligned with the Houthis, according to the Times.

Trump made it pretty clear on Truth Social, writing in a long post:

"To Iran: Support for the Houthi terrorists must end IMMEDIATELY! Do NOT threaten the American People, their President, who has received one of the largest mandates in Presidential History, or Worldwide shipping lanes. If you do, BEWARE, because America will hold you fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it!"

Dems Call For Schumer To Step Down As Minority Leader

On Friday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer supported a Republican continuing resolution that averted a government shutdown. His actions infuriated Democrats, with some members of Schumer's own party denouncing him and demanding he resign his leadership position. Some members of the House are considering a primary challenge against Schumer, according to Politico. Schumer tried to defend himself in a weekend interview with the New York Times, but the anger is boiling over.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Kash Patel Is Restructuring The FBI Recently installed FBI director Kash Patel is working to reorganize the FBI's 52 field offices into "three regions." Patel has said he wants to "decentralize" the FBI and move more agents from Washington, DC to regional field offices. via NYT.
  • Trump Targets More Agencies For Deletion President Trump signed another executive order targeting federal agencies for wholesale destruction. The latest order eliminates the Voice of America media organization, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, and other civic-minded efforts. (Granted, VoA is a bit of a propaganda shop, too.) via WaPo and White House.
  • Rubio Vows More Arrests and Deportations Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the Trump administration would continue arresting and deporting political activists exercising their lawful constitutional rights. "We're going to keep doing it," said Rubio in a television interview. via CBS News.
  • Legal Green Card Holders Targeted By ICE Legal green card holders are finding themselves increasingly targeted by US immigration enforcement. A Rhode Island doctor visiting family in Lebanon was detained in Boston and deported against a judge's order. A German man with a green card living in New Hampshire was also detained and essentially tortured at Logan Airport. Another foreign student fled to Canada after being hounded by ICE. via Providence Journal, NHPR, and NYT.

SOME NUMBER

43

That's how many countries are on Trump's new draft travel ban list, which is circulating among top federal officials. The list bans travel entirely from 11 countries while placing dozens of other countries on two restricted lists.

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PARTING WORDS

"We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty.' We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home."

-- French politician Raphael Glucksmann speaking at a convention for his center-left political party.

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