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Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of migrants in Texas under the Alien Enemies Act.
The 18th century wartime power was invoked by Trump to quickly deport Venezuelans,
deems are members of a gang.
Imperial Sergio Martinez Beltran is more.
The Supreme Court says the Trump administration did not give the men at a detention center in northern Texas enough time to challenge their deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
The unsigned order says detainees...
are entitled to more notice than the roughly 24 hours the government gave the Venezuelan men at the center of this case.
Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.
This ruling did not address the question of whether Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was legal.
The High Court did say that this order does not stop the government from removing people from the U.S. under other lawful authorities.
Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Austin.
The Texas House of Representatives has voted to repeal a law banning homosexual conduct.
Houston Public Media's Andrew Snyder reports the bill faces steep odds in the state Senate,