The administration is increasingly asking the Supreme Court, which Trump helped shape by nominating three justices, to step in, not only to rule in its favor but also to send a message to federal judges, who Trump and his allies claim are overstepping their authority.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trump's assertion that judges don't have the power to review his use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang. The three-panel court ruled that a judge's ban temporarily barring such deportations could remain in place.

The Trump administration asked the justices to allow it to use a wartime law to continue deportations of Venezuelans with little or no due process.

A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from deporting migrants to countries with which they had no relationship without giving them a chance to raise claims that they would face persecution or torture if sent there.

A temporary order will give some migrants a chance to convince the government that deporting them to “third countries” such as El Salvador would put them at risk.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting people who have exhausted legal appeals to countries other than their own without first being allowed to argue that it w