‘Not Going To Stop Us’: Pam Bondi Says Illegal Immigrants Can No Longer Bank On Liberal Judges After SCOTUS Ruling

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s “landmark ruling” on deportations has officially prevented left-wing judges from seizing control of President Donald Trump’s administration’s efforts.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court tossed orders by U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, that blocked the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport over 200 members of Tren de Agua to El Salvador. Bondi, who celebrated the high court’s decision, said on “Fox & Friends” that these liberal judges no longer have any authority to interfere with the administration’s deportations.

“These liberal district judges thought that they could control our entire country’s policy [and] Donald Trump’s policy on keeping America safe,” Bondi said. “They cannot do it and this is, again, a landmark ruling for the rule of law yesterday and it’s so important because these flights will now continue. These terrorists, they are foreign terrorists, they are alien enemies to our country and we will continue to deport them. We are going to keep America safe and a liberal district judge is not going to stop us. That’s what this Supreme Court ruled yesterday.”

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The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 allows for a president in certain circumstances to deport individuals without them appearing before an immigration judge, raising the question of whether Trump had the authority to use this act to deport these individuals. Though the flights were already en route to El Salvador, Boasberg ordered in a March 17 ruling that the deportation flights be reversed.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the administration had not defied the ruling since the planes were already outside of U.S. territory.

The Supreme Court’s order states that the gang members “are subject to removal” under the Alien Enemies Act. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

“AEA detainees must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act,” the court’s order states. “The notice must be afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs.”

Bondi further commented on Boasberg’s scheduled hearing on the matter at 3:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday.

“[Boasberg] is not canceling the hearing, he is continuing on with the hearing. But the Supreme Court has spoken loud and clear. He has no jurisdiction, that flight will remain in El Salvador, those inmates, those violent gang members, those violent alien enemies will remain in El Salvador,” Bondi said. “He cannot get them back. So his jurisdiction is over. So we’ll see what he says today at 3 p.m., but going forward, these terrorists better look out.”

Tren de Agua, which gained a foothold in the U.S. since former President Joe Biden’s border crisis, is responsible for a number of gruesome crimes in the U.S. In June, two illegal immigrants alleged to be part of Tren de Agua murdered 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston, Texas, and dumped her body in a nearby river.