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IrishBubbaLiberal

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Sat Apr 19, 2025, 10:42 AM Apr 2025

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


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.
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Been A Dick Donald's 2 toadies, Thomas and Alito dissented? MarineCombatEngineer Apr 2025 #1
I know, right? COL Mustard Apr 2025 #23
And you can bet both will more than likely resign during Shitbrain's term so he can appoint walkingman Apr 2025 #29
The usual two fascist assholes dissented, but what's interesting is that Ocelot II Apr 2025 #2
Great point! Maybe the others will stop playing nice! Decorum wasn't working Tadpole Raisin Apr 2025 #3
They knew that time was of the essence MadameButterfly Apr 2025 #33
Good news to wake up to. mountain grammy Apr 2025 #4
Does this mean any and all deportations are prohibited ? MichMan Apr 2025 #5
Not sure, might be only regarding Texas IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 2025 #10
It applies to those Venezuelan detainees in the Northern District of Texas. sl8 Apr 2025 #15
Correct SCantiGOP Apr 2025 #19
This should answer it IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 2025 #14
Maybe the Supreme Court realized gab13by13 Apr 2025 #6
Not Thomas and Alito. vanlassie Apr 2025 #17
THIS! THIS! THIS! OMGWTF Apr 2025 #18
Well, at least 4 of the "conservatives" maybe realized. KPN Apr 2025 #24
Historic. orangecrush Apr 2025 #7
More Iamscrewed Apr 2025 #8
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe Apr 2025 #9
Maybe they should wise up and 'revisit' their decision re presidential immunity Attilatheblond Apr 2025 #11
Are they finally realizing.... Mustellus Apr 2025 #12
Kicked Hekate Apr 2025 #13
Im betting after that 9 - 0 ruling Figarosmom Apr 2025 #16
Alito needed to sober up before he pulled some midevil BS out to justify his dissent IbogaProject Apr 2025 #20
The pope should call those 'two' satans Captain Zero Apr 2025 #26
Yes, thank you IrishBubbaLiberal EndlessWire Apr 2025 #21
The bad news is that Trump will ignore the order. iemanja Apr 2025 #22
Ultimately, that will be his and MAGAs undoing. KPN Apr 2025 #25
You do know it's only for the TX run he was going to do NT Tickle Apr 2025 #27
Key words..."any member of the punitive class of detainees" IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 2025 #28
I'd rule against him just for keeping me up late on a holiday. Frasier Balzov Apr 2025 #30
A rare instance of the SC getting off their asses and doing their jobs. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #31
".... Alito and Thomas dissenting ...." live love laugh Apr 2025 #32
While any dissent is inhuman MadameButterfly Apr 2025 #34
The best part... jmowreader Apr 2025 #35
You can bet they might have an "accident" DonCoquixote Apr 2025 #36
I read on FB last night that we have to stop calling it deportation & call it what it is, RENDITION. CrispyQ Apr 2025 #37
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