Supreme Court Issues Predawn Order Temporarily Halting Deportation Flights
Constitutional scholars warn that the justices’ brief order leaves unresolved key questions about the legal authority behind Trump’s actions. In a stunning late-night intervention, the Supreme Court temporarily halted the Trump administration’s efforts to deport dozens of Texas detainees, leaving their fate hanging in the balance Saturday. The court did not explain its reasoning in its unsigned emergency order issued about 1 a.m., but it did tell the Trump administration “not to remove any member of the putative class of prisoners” from the United States until further action by the Supreme Court. Two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., dissented. Experts say the Supreme Court’s bold […]