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Trump v. J.G.G.

604 U.S. ___ (2025)

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Trump v. J.G.G.

United States Supreme Court
604 U.S. ___ (2025)

Facts

In 2025, the United States State Department designated the Venezuelan organization Tren de Aragua (TdA) as a foreign terrorist organization. President Donald Trump (defendant) issued a presidential proclamation (the proclamation) invoking the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to detain and remove from the United States Venezuelan nationals whom authorities had identified as members of TdA. J.G.G. and four other detainees who were confined in Texas, along with a putative class of similarly situated detainees (collectively, the detainees) (plaintiffs) brought an action in federal district court in Washington, DC, to seek injunctive and declaratory relief preventing their removal under the proclamation. The district court issued temporary restraining orders (TROs) preventing removal of the named plaintiffs and preventing removal of a provisionally certified class that included any noncitizen in US custody who was subject to the proclamation. The government asked the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to stay the TROs, but the DC Circuit denied the government’s motion. The government then applied to the United States Supreme Court, seeking to have the TROs vacated.

Rule of Law

Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Per curiam)

Concurrence (Kavanaugh, J.)

Dissent (Sotomayor, J.)

Dissent (Jackson, J.)

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