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I'm kind of slow when it comes to legal stuff, but this seems to be a particularly interesting case unfolding.

Essentially, SCOTUS blocked the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang members in a 1 am ruling. Now the Supreme Court rarely does this, I assume because they are old and sleep a lot and very rarely have any sense of urgency whatsoever.

Alito and Thomas were the only two dissenters. I have no idea why these Venezualans seem to be so valuable to so many branches of government. The Biden admin imported them and now the Supreme Court is bending over backwards to protect them, in a midnight decision right before a holiday Sunday. Anyone have a theory as to what's going on here?

Notes from the Alito dissent:

“In sum, literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order,” Alito wrote. “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. Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.”


“In sum, literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order,” Alito wrote. “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. Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.”