The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with Donald Trump in the case of a Maryland father who was accidentally sent to a prison in El Salvador, pausing a lower court’s order that would have required the government to bring him home by midnight on Monday.
The 5-4 decision allows the president to continue summarily deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members under a centuries-old wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act, but the justices said the immigrants targeted are “entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal.”
Trump meanwhile appears determined to stand by the sweeping tariffs he has imposed on some of the United States’ biggest trading partners, despite a global backlash that has left the world’s stock markets jittery.
As the trade measures inspired a wild day of ups and downs, the president dug in his heels and insisted his administration was “not looking at” pausing the tariffs during an Oval Office meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, insisting they would make America “rich.”
That came hours after he had ratcheted up the tension by threatening China and after a false rumor had circulated suggesting he would suspend the levies, which sparked a short-lived rally.
