Today on Lawfare No Bull: On March 24, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments on whether to stay a temporary restraining order issued on March 15—which bars summary removals of alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal gang—under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The panel, composed of Judge Patricia Millet, Judge Justin Miller, and Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, asked attorneys about the lack of notice and process given to migrants, why the migrants couldn’t have just filed habeas petitions, and why the lawyers filed in D.C. rather than Texas.
Caroline is a an incoming student at Columbia Law School. She graduated from Duke University in 2024 and previously interned at Lawfare in spring 2025.
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