Trump asks US Supreme Court to lift ban on deportations under wartime law | Donald Trump News

US president appeals to Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ban on his use of an obscure wartime law.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th-century wartime law, while a court fight continues.

The Department of Justice asked the court in a filing to lift Washington, DC-based US District Judge James Boasberg’s March 15 order calling for a temporary halt to the summary removals of the