Trumps court challenges: From deportations to trans service members, heres where key cases against the president stand

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s signature campaign pledges have so far been enacted by a sweeping barrage of executive actions intended to shrink the federal government, deport illegal immigrants and rewrite gender policy.However, those orders are facing headwinds in court as judges have cited various legal grounds to stall their implementation and cast doubt on when, if ever, they will take effect.Litigation is a standard aspect of political debates, but Trump has this week faced a series of setbacks, spurring White House frustration with the judicial branch.“It’s incredibly apparent that there is a concerted effort by the far left to judge-shop, to pick judges who are clearly acting as partisan activists from the bench in an attempt to derail this president’s agenda,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday.“We will not allow that to happen.And not only are they usurping the will of the president and the chief executive of our country, but they are undermining the will of the American people.”The Issue: President Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for the first time since World War II to expel alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which he has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.Three deportation flights packed with 238 alleged Tren de Aragua members departed Saturday night en route to El Salvador, according to that country’s president, Nayib Bukele, who released footage Sunday morning of them being roughly hustled to prison.The White House says that El Salvador agreed to jail the Venezuelan deportees for about $6 million — almost half of the cost of imprisoning them in the United States.The Ruling: The American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit Saturday after the Venezuelan deportees received word of their impending transfer — arguing the Alien Enemies Act cannot be used in peacetime and that Trump was skirting immigration, asylum and regulatory process rules....