The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a 1798 wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan migrants it accuses of being gang members, ending the temporary halt on deportations ordered by a federal district judge.

A Texas judge blocked deportations of anyone held in a South Texas detention facility who may be removed under the wartime law and a New York judge planned a similar order in part of that state.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, in his Washington D.C. courtroom, pressed Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign on who exactly told planes carrying Venezuelan detainees deported under the Alien Enemies Act not to turn around, even after he’d ordered that those detainees not be removed from U.S. custody.

The court placed limits on how deportations may occur, emphasizing that judicial review is required. Detainees must be notified that they are subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act.

A judge had blocked the Trump administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders Tuesday aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline.