The Supreme Court’s Late-Night Rebuke to Trump Is Extraordinary in More Ways Than One

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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Shortly before 1 a.m. on Saturday, the Supreme Court issued an emergency order halting the Trump administration’s reported efforts to fly Venezuelan migrants to an El Salvador prison before they could challenge their deportation. The court’s late-night intervention is an extraordinary and highly unusual rebuke to the government, one that may well mark a turning point in the majority’s approach to this administration. For months, SCOTUS has given the government every benefit of the doubt, accepting the Justice Department’s dubious assertions and awarding Trump immense deference. On Saturday, however, a majority of justices signaled that they no longer trust the administration to comply with the law, including the court’s own rulings.

 
FINALLY SCOTUS is standing up. SLowly but surely. Apparently there are things too repulsive even for the SCOTUS right wing.

Is this going to be the first "battleground" that defines the Constitutional Crisis we are currently in? I am heartened to hear that the busses headed to the airport turned around. Maybe Trump is going to blink on this one and retrench to fight another day in his ongoing war against Democracy and Rule of Law.
 
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