Fmr. U.S. Atty.: President Trump Is ‘Absolutely Right’ to Invoke the Alien Enemies Act to Deport Violent Gang Members

Smith: “ — bring in Jay Town now, former U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Alabama. Thank you so much for joining us. So, please do tell us, based on everything you just heard from the White House and that briefing we’ve heard from the president and his administration, where does this go next?”

TOWN: “Well, ultimately, nearly all — I mean, this is lawfare by other means. I think Karoline Leavitt sort of alluded to that. There’s been 129 lawsuits in Trump’s less than 60 days of being in office. To put it in further context, in his first term, there were 64 injunctions against Trump. That’s more than the sum of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden’s administration all put together. The legality of Trump — Donald Trump, President Trump is absolutely right. It doesn’t matter this is a 1798 law. We’re using gobs of the First Amendment right now on your air, that’s an even older law. And so, the Alien Enemies Act, what the president did, is he very shrewdly intertwined TdA with the Venezuela government and the — is calling it a hybrid criminal state because Maduro and TdA have joined together in law enforcement, in military. The Maduro government funds TdA to come to the United States to bring cocaine, to sow discord, to engage in violence. And he has enacted the Alien Enemies Act, declared TdA a foreign terrorist organization, and ordered their removal. That’s what the AEA was meant to do. And so, the president has acted in his Article II authorities, and for a district Judge in Washington, D.C., and I hope you’ll ask me about all the mistakes this judge has made already, but for a judge to substitute his judgment for the president of the United States or the ACLU’s judgment, you might as well substitute the winner of the Publishers Clearing House’s judgment for the president.”