Court orders return of Venezuelan deportees challenging removal
The J.G.G. case continues. After a Supreme Court ruling on the emergency docket that noncitizens that the Trump administration was seeking to remove under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (AEA) had due process rights to habeas corpus review, District Judge James E. Boasberg certified a habeas class action and granted the class summary judgment: "the Court holds that the entire class received constitutionally inadequate process on the weekend of March 14–16, 2025, when class members were given no meaningful notice of their AEA designations and no opportunity to challenge them. The Court thus turns to an appropriate and feasible remedy to rectify this constitutional violation."
Rebecca Beitsch for The Hill summarized the ruling as follows: "A federal judge on Monday ruled the Trump administration must allow Venezuelan men it deported to a megaprison in El Salvador to return to the U.S. to fight their case, including disputing that they were part of a gang. . . . The ruling . . . is the latest development in a case brought by more than 100 Venezuelan men who were removed from the U.S. in March under the . . . AEA . . . after they were accused of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang."
