The Trump Administration Is Right, and The ACLU Et Al. Are Wrong, About Using The Alien Enemies Act Against TdA Terrorists

I mean...this thread of arguments by Jay Town (via Instapundit) seems to just totally annihilate objections.

For one thing, the oft-repeated ACLU claim that it can only be used against groups on which Congress has declared war is just patently false.

Guess I shoulda looked that up...

Addendum:

Yeah, I really should have--b/c:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government...

The weak point in Towns's argument seems to be where he argues that the Administration argues that TdA and the government of Venezuela constitute a "hybrid criminal state."

   I thought there for awhile that any "predatory incursion" triggered the act.

   Anyway, I take it back: the administration is not obviously right about this. That hybrid state point seems pretty shaky. But I don't know any details about the relationship between TdA and the Venezuelan government.