The White House, speaking out after lawsuits poured in Saturday following the Supreme Court’s ruling temporarily blocking efforts to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan nationals being held in northern Texas under the 18th-century wartime law, called the litigation “meritless.”
“We are confident in the lawfulness of the Administration’s actions and in ultimately prevailing against an onslaught of meritless litigation brought by radical activists who care more about the rights of terrorist aliens than those of the American people,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Saturday afternoon to Politico.
The White House’s statement came out more than 12 hours after the high court in a 7-2 decision early Saturday ordered a temporary halt to the deportations, with Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas publicly dissenting.
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