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What Happens If President Trump Defies a Judge’s Order?
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President Donald Trump’s March 15 deportation of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members, in possible defiance of a federal judge’s order, deepened a battle over the limits of presidential authority and the courts’ ability to check the chief executive’s power.
Conflict between the Trump administration and the judiciary flared after Trump invoked an obscure law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to fly the alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador.