The Trump administration’s bid to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members was temporarily blocked by judges in New York and Texas, in a pair of cases over the president’s use of a two-century old wartime law.

U.S. judges in Texas and New York dealt blows on Wednesday to President Donald Trump's effort to revive deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members under a wartime law after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a nationwide ban on such removals.

Federal judges in New York and Texas temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelan men it alleges are gang members by using the Alien Enemies Act. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed both lawsuits after the Supreme Court on Monday rejected the men’s attempt to bring their challenge before a federal judge in Washington,