US Supreme Court Ruled in middle of night, 1-2am, Stopping Trump's flights out of country

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/19/2317398/-Wow-Supreme-Court-s-Early-Morning-Order-Stops-Deportation-Flights?

Wow: Supreme Court's Early Morning Order Stops Deportation Flights

by KeithDB

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 6:10:31a CDT

I wake up to something I’ve never heard of before. When I went to bed last night court hearings were blowing up again as the Trump Regime was apparently preparing to send hundreds more to El Salvador. To nominally comply with the Supreme Court’s prior order requiring real and effective due process the Regime isolated those targeted and compelled or tricked them into signing statements saying they accepted the deportation.

At a hearing last night a D.C. judge sympathized with desperate lawyers for those to be deported but said he was powerless to stop them under the Supreme Court’s decision saying all such appeals had to be made in the district where the government was holding the people. The judge invited the Supreme Court to intervene, but it was already about 9 pm.

Well, I have never heard of this sort of thing before, but the Supreme Court, in the dead of night, did intervene. In an order dated Saturday, so it happened, sometime after Midnight (it appears to have been between 1 or 2 am) the Supreme Court issue an order that all such deportations under the Enemy Aliens Act be stopped. It was a 7-2 decision with Alito and Thomas dissenting. A written dissent by Alito is to follow because he apparently did not have time to write one yet.

Folks, that is some crazy jacked up crazy stuff there from the Supreme Court. Dark of the night full vote orders like that is not anything I have heard of before. Sometimes one assigned justice issues a late night emergency order in rare life or death situations delaying things, but this was a vote of the full court.

The good news is that the Supreme Court stayed up into the wee hours of the morning to preserve the rule of law against autocracy. The bad news is that two dissented.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. Been A Dick Donald's 2 toadies, Thomas and Alito dissented?

What a surprise.

[COL Mustard]

23. I know, right?

Color me shocked.

Not!

[walkingman]

29. And you can bet both will more than likely resign during Shitbrain's term so he can appoint

2 more just like them but younger.

[Ocelot II]

2. The usual two fascist assholes dissented, but what's interesting is that

the majority didn't give Alito time to finish his dissent - they just snatched the order away, leaving it to say only that his "statement is pending." Apparently it's still pending; I haven't been able to find it yet.

[Tadpole Raisin]

3. Great point! Maybe the others will stop playing nice! Decorum wasn't working

and hopefully most of the majority is tired of being played with Alito’s and Thomas’s efforts to drag things out for their comrade the Fing convicted Felon!

[MadameButterfly]

33. They knew that time was of the essence

A dissent would have found these guys in El Salvadore already.

[mountain grammy]

4. Good news to wake up to.

[MichMan]

5. Does this mean any and all deportations are prohibited ?

to any country? Or just flights?

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

10. Not sure, might be only regarding Texas

Not sure.

I read somewhere that it was about Texas,
But it might pertain to ALL deportations to another country


Ruling details —
https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3ln5eof4t3223

[sl8]

15. It applies to those Venezuelan detainees in the Northern District of Texas.

SCOTUS invited the government to come back after the 5th Circuit was finished with the case.

[SCantiGOP]

19. Correct

It’s a significant blow to the Administration, and a good first step, but only applies to Venezuelans in that district.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

14. This should answer it

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20252800

[gab13by13]

6. Maybe the Supreme Court realized

that it isn't needed in a dictatorship? No more bribes, no more trips.

[vanlassie]

17. Not Thomas and Alito.

[OMGWTF]

18. THIS! THIS! THIS!

SCOTUS risks being irrelevant, as do all other courts of law when the only law of the land is "Whatever T💩p said."

[KPN]

24. Well, at least 4 of the "conservatives" maybe realized.

Not Alito and Thomas. But I'll take 7-2 ... even if it's for the less than confidence building reason that your premise is right.

[orangecrush]

7. Historic.

[Iamscrewed]

8. More

More of this is overdue. This administration so blatantly ilegal in its actions that it's like 1933 Germany. If they aren't stopped it will only get worse.

[Uncle Joe]

9. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread IrishBubbaLiberal

[Attilatheblond]

11. Maybe they should wise up and 'revisit' their decision re presidential immunity

It's obvious he thinks it means he can do ANYTHING and that, since he is POTUS, EVERYTHING he does is covered.

Time to slap him back into reality about LAWS.

[Mustellus]

12. Are they finally realizing....

.. you don't need a Supreme Court if you have a Supreme Ruler.

[Hekate]

13. Kicked

[Figarosmom]

16. Im betting after that 9 - 0 ruling

They were told to get with the program and alito and thomas obeyed like good little kept men.

[IbogaProject]

20. Alito needed to sober up before he pulled some midevil BS out to justify his dissent

[Captain Zero]

26. The pope should call those 'two' satans

Word is that the Pope had some things to say to Vance about treatment of immigrants while he was on his Rome visit.

Vance and the "two" are Catholic.

So are other SC members, like 4-5 more I think. There needs to be a moratorium for Catholics on the SC.

[EndlessWire]

21. Yes, thank you IrishBubbaLiberal

for the information. They must be super pissed that they are being defied by the trump regime?

I wonder if they can see what's happening and regret making him a King. You know, they are on the wrong side of history and will be infamous if they don't stand with us against this dictator.

It's rather fun to picture them in bathrobes instead of judicial robes, perhaps yawning and drinking coffee--or other stuff, as the case may be. I love the idea of secret meetings in the middle of the night in order to thwart dastardly deeds. Or, maybe not so secret, as they must have clerks and such in attendance also?

Great news!

[iemanja]

22. The bad news is that Trump will ignore the order.

[KPN]

25. Ultimately, that will be his and MAGAs undoing.

[Tickle]

27. You do know it's only for the TX run he was going to do NT

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

28. Key words..."any member of the punitive class of detainees"

The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump administration from deporting foreign nationals under the Alien Enemies Act. Thomas, Alito dissent.

From today’s Supreme Court ruling:

“The government is directed not to remove any member of the punitive class
of detainees from the United States until further order from this court…”


Key words…”any member of the punitive class of detainees”

See..
https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3ln5eof4t3223

[Frasier Balzov]

30. I'd rule against him just for keeping me up late on a holiday.

[Irish_Dem]

31. A rare instance of the SC getting off their asses and doing their jobs.

The jobs they are paid handsomely to do.

[live love laugh]

32. ".... Alito and Thomas dissenting ...."

[MadameButterfly]

34. While any dissent is inhuman

the 4 Republicans showing late signs of sanity offer a glimmer of hope for the Republic.
I had only dared hope for Amy Coney Barrett and Roberts when democracy is finally put on the line. Now, maybe more.

[jmowreader]

35. The best part...

All three of Trump's appointees, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, voted against him.

[DonCoquixote]

36. You can bet they might have an "accident"

and be forced to resign

[CrispyQ]

37. I read on FB last night that we have to stop calling it deportation & call it what it is, RENDITION.

Deportation includes due process. Rendition does not.

Our media is so sloppy with words. The general public is too, but the media shouldn't be.