The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to revive its use of a wartime deportation law after a lower court blocked efforts to expel more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members without hearings.

In an emergency petition, Justice Department lawyers urged the high court to lift orders issued by a federal judge in the District of Columbia and upheld by an appeals court this week that halted removals under President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, a centuries-old law allowing the expulsion of noncitizens during war or national emergency.