New Delhi, April 19 -- In a rare and dramatic late-night intervention, the US Supreme Court on Saturday (April 19) temporarily halted President Donald Trump's use of the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process.

The emergency order, issued in two terse paragraphs, temporarily blocks the administration from expelling dozens of Venezuelan detainees under the 1798 law.

Notably, two of the Court's most conservative justices dissented. The ruling came just hours before a planned mass deportation.

"The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order," the court said.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which led the legal c...