Tensions escalate after Supreme Court temporary pause
Tensions between the Trump administration and the Supreme Court escalated over the weekend, after the court temporarily paused some deportations of migrants that the administration claimed were Venezuelan gang members. NBC News' Vaughn Hillyard has more.
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