Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to use a controversial 18th century wartime authority to speed deportations, the issue has rocketed back to the justices in a second short-fuse appeal with enormous potential consequences.

In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in Texas' Bluebonnet Detention Center "until further order from this court."

U.S. District Court Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. ruled the Alien Enemies Act, an18th-century wartime law, cannot be used against individuals the Trump administration says are gang members invading