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Last Updated: March 16, 2025, 5:36 PM EDT

The White House has asked a federal circuit court to stay a district court's temporary restraining orderthat blocked President Donald Trump from using the Alien Enemies act to deport noncitizens, including alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

Meanwhile, the fallout over Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democrats voting with Republicans to avert a government shutdown continued, with some in Schumer's party calling for new leadership while others defended him, but said the party needed to use new tactics and new messaging.

And Trump signed an executive order on Saturday that rescinded 19 executive actions issued by former President Joe Biden's administration on gender, labor policies and industry regulations, bringing the number of Biden's actions reversed by Trump to nearly 100.

Mar 15, 2025, 5:12 PM EDT

Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act despite court order

Despite a federal judge halting the administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport five migrants, the White House announced Saturday that it had done so in order to deport Venezuelan migrants.

Trump alleged this was done to target alleged members of the Tren De Aragua gang.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders

Mar 15, 2025, 4:47 PM EDT

Trump appeals temporary restraining order on Alien Enemies Act

Lawyers with the Department of Justice asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to enter an administrative stay of the lower court's temporary restraining order, which blocks the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport noncitizens.

"This Court should halt this massive, unauthorized imposition on the Executive’s authority to remove dangerous aliens who pose threats to the American people," the filing said.

The government argued that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg overstepped his authority, declined to hear a response from the Trump administration before ruling and is "setting the stage to potentially inject itself into all such removals nationwide."

Boasberg previously oversaw the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court and was nominated to federal judicial roles by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

Mar 15, 2025, 1:46 PM EDT

Trump signs government funding bill

President Donald Trump signed the six-month government funding bill that was approved by Congress Friday night, according to the White House.

The bill was crafted by GOP leaders and backed by Trump.

Mar 15, 2025, 12:40 PM EDT

Federal judge temporarily blocks deportations of Venezuelans

A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelans who have been detained in Texas.

The TRO will be in effect for two weeks.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit against the federal government arguing they were moved to detention centers in Texas intended to be "staging facilities to remove Venezuelan men under the [Alien Enemies Act of 1798],"

The organization contended the federal government misidentified the plaintiffs as gang members.

-ABC News' Armando Garcia and Peter Charalambous

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