03-17-25 YMS A Federal judge is blocking the use of President Trump’s use of wartime powers to quickly deport non-citizens. What is the President trying to do – and why did the judge stop it. White House Correspondent – and attorney – JON DECKER has the story.

A Federal judge is blocking the use of President Trump’s use of wartime powers to quickly deport non-citizens. What is the President trying to do – and why did the judge stop it. White House Correspondent – and attorney – JON DECKER has the story. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on Your Morning Show with Michael Del Choono.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
A federal judges blocking the use of President Trump's use
of wartime powers to quickly deport non citizens. What is
the president trying to do and why did the judge
stop it? You need more than just a White House correspondent,
how about a Supreme Court bar attorney. You get both
in one. John Decker, good morning and Happy Saint Patrick's Day.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Happy Saint Patrick's Day. To you. Thank you. Over the weekend,
there was a major deportation that happened of alleged Venezuelan
gang members. They were deported not to Venezuela, but to
El Salvador. El Salvador's president has agreed to take them in.
And what the President did was he invoked the Alien
Enemies Act, which was first passed in seventeen ninety eight

(00:45):
Selden been used as the impetus for removing these individuals
from the United States. A federal District court judge says,
wait a minute, before you do that again. I'm going
to issue a temporary restraining order and I'm going to
have a hearing on this matter, likely within the next
two weeks, and so that will likely happen, and that

(01:06):
means that these future deportations like the one we saw
over the weekend are temporarily on hold.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
All right, So walk us through in regular client language,
what this judge will be looking at and what the
concerns are.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Well, what the judge we'll be looking at is whether
this was the proper invocation of this particular law the
last time it was used world War Two. The law
allows the president during wartime to deport citizens of countries
considered an enemy of the United States, and that's the
reason why this law has rarely been invoked. You know,

(01:44):
the last time that Congress declared war was World War Two,
and I think that there will be judges that look
to that specifically as whether or not the president used
this law properly as president. As you know, also upon
taking office declared illegal immigration as a national emergency? Is

(02:06):
that enough to invoke this particular law? And so those
will be the competing issues at play when this is
decided ultimately by the federal courts in our country.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's what I was just going to ask you, and
you kind of answered it before I could ask it. So,
what we have Our criminals have committed crimes, they can
be removed from the country. But I mean this goes
back to World War Two when was the Japanese. Does
he even need this? I mean, could he just change
the way he does future ones? Is my next question.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, he's invoked this law and so that is the
reason that he has cited for allowing his administration to
do what it did over the weekend. Now, if he
cited a different legal authority, then it may be a
different issue entirely. But to invoke this law means that
is the issue before this federal district court judge. This

(03:02):
federal district court judge, by the way, did not say
what the president did was illegal or unconstitutional. What he
said wants to look further. I'm I'm going to have
a hearing on this and we will examine this issue
during that hearing.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
And then John the outcome of that hearing that could
go to even higher courts, right it.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Could, yeah, I mean, depending upon who loses at that level.
It's the ACLU that sued on behalf of those individuals
who are deported out of the country. Whoever loses at
the district court level can appeal to the appella court
level and a circuit court will decide that issue, and
whoever loses there could appeal all the way to the

(03:38):
US Supreme Court. I think we're going to see a
lot of that play out during this administration. A lot
of decisions ultimately made by the President that get challenged
legally may indeed be decided by the US Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
You know, it's always one of my favorite segments, and
I'm very grateful that you're here every day, but today
in particular, and doing my show prep and study, I
really needed you to answer some of these questions. This
one was perfect. Have a great table talk again tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
YouTube Michael, Bye bye.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your morning show with Michael del Churno.