Justice Assholito's dissent in context

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Alito blasts late-night ruling on deportation flights as ‘legally questionable’
by Kyle Balluck - 04/21/25 8:54 AM ET

... Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito faulted his colleagues for temporarily halting deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act “literally in the middle of the night.”

Alito’s dissent, also sent out at nearly midnight Saturday, came after the court agreed in the early hours of the morning to block for now any additional flights that would transport migrants to a Salvadoran prison ...

“I refused to join the Court’s order because we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.”

The court took the unusual step of issuing its ruling without waiting for Alito to share his dissent ...

ICE buses filled with Venezuelans heading toward airport turned around
April 20, 2025, 7:58 AM EDT
By Vaughn Hillyard, Julia Ainsley, Kayla McCormick, Sarah Dean and Rebecca Cohen

Video from Friday night shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement buses full of Venezuelan migrants headed toward an airport in North Texas and abruptly turning around before the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration must, for now, refrain from deporting Venezuelan men based in the state under the Alien Enemies Act.

At least 28 detainees — most, if not all, understood to be Venezuelan nationals — were placed on buses Friday evening at ICE’s Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, and driven toward Abilene Airport, about 30 miles away.

The motorcade — including at least 18 squad cars from various law enforcement agencies with flashing lights along the North Texas highways — left the ICE facility, with some men on board being told they were being deported to El Salvador and some that they were headed to Venezuela, according to the wife of one of the detainees and two lawyers representing other detainees at the facility. Before they departed, it was not clear what their destinations would be ...

Assholito is doing everything he can to enable the fascists

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1. Odd that the time of day Alito is concerned over is same time of day ICE tries to cloak its shit with.

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2. Rec for

Assholito's 😀

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3. "including at least 18 squad cars from various law enforcement agencies with flashing lights"

Worst reality TV ever.

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4. The context is that half the scotus are criminals who have taken bribes and they're propping up

the gangster in chief to remain on the bench and out of prison.