Could a president deploy wartime law against the Beatles? Trump administration says yes'

"Could a president use the same law against a British invasion that was corrupting young minds? Jennifer Walker Elrod, chief judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, said her query a reference to the moral panic in the 1960s over the arrival of the Beatles and other British bands was fanciful, but a government attorney responded that the president did have that power and courts could not stop him."

"but a government attorney responded that the president did have that power and courts could not stop him. These sort of questions of foreign affairs and the security of the nation are specifically political issues, said Drew Ensign, an assistant attorney general who was arguing the administration's case before the full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Ensign said it would be up to Congress to check the president in that scenario."

A federal appeals court considered the Trump administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to target members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua for deportation. A judge posed a hypothetical about using the law against a British invasion that was corrupting young minds, and a government attorney said the president had that authority and courts could not intervene. An assistant attorney general described the matter as a political question for Congress to check. A three-judge panel had earlier ruled the act cannot be deployed against a gang rather than a belligerent foreign power. All 17 judges of the 5th Circuit heard the appeal.

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