Top court allows Trump administration to resume deportations

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted an order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used 18th-century wartime law.

In a bitterly divided 5-4 decision, the court said that the migrants, whom the administration has accused of being gang members, must get a chance to challenge their deportation before they are taken out of the country.

But the conservative majority said the legal challenges must take place in Texas instead of a Washington courtroom and that the Trump administration must give them "reasonable time” to go to court.

Earlier Monday, Trump said during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington that the US is holding direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program, warning that Tehran would be in "great danger” if the talks aren’t successful.

Associated Press