Curious indeed. The Trump administration had petitioned the Supreme Court for stays in three different challenges on Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. The easiest action to take would have been to ignore the requests and let the cases play out, likely well into the next Supreme Court term. Instead, the court decided to...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling with no noted dissents affirming a federal judge’s order compelling President Donald Trump’s administration to enable the stateside return of Kilmar Abrego García, a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in his native country. “The rule of law won today,” said Andrew Rossman, one...
The Supreme Court made two key initial procedural rulings on Monday in cases related to the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to grease the wheels of mass detention and mass deportation primarily through outsourcing to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison, which is known worldwide for its flagrant human rights abuses. In its...
This proves once again that Supreme Court decisions require careful reading rather than broad assumptions. Federal judges in both Texas and California read the per curiam order issued late Monday in challenges to deportations of alleged Tren de Aragua organized-crime members — and issued separate stays today. The first came in New York: A...
Is this a win? Procedurally, it’s more of a pause, and may not even be much of a pause, as we’ll see. It may, however, send an important signal to lower courts, and to judges inclined to toss sand in the gears of the executive branch. Maybe. Earlier this afternoon,...
