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STSteven's avatar

Sounds like the powers-that-be running the Supreme Court are already tiring of the continual orange clown nonsense. And, of course, this ruling features the Curmudgeon Twins (Alito and Thomas) dissenting. Because......reasons.

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rsketchl's avatar

.so Alito and Thomas are showing their fealty to 'King Donald'?

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Shelley Powers's avatar

I hate to say Kavanaugh is right on anything, but he's right: SCOTUS should be taking up the question on using AEA, instead of this pussyfooting and ping-ponging back and forth that's going on.

As for Alito, he's a bitter, miserable, angry old man.

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KAO's avatar

Alito starts with his desired cruel outcome and creates a BS reasoning to try to support it. He fails. Thomas joins him per usual. Thank you to the other conservative justices for seeing the obvious illegal and immoral actions of the current administration and doing their jobs.

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Alex Lindvall's avatar

It also really seemed like the Court showed what it was going to do in the nationwide-injunction case too.

The Court held that it was proper for the district courts to apply their TROs and preliminary injunctions to a “putative” or “provisional” class of people (e.g., all people subject to deportation under the AEA) without analyzing whether an actual class was likely to be certified at permanent-injunction stage.

It seems like that’s going to be the rule that comes out of the birthright citizenship case: district courts can issue short-term nationwide injunctions as to putative classes at the TRO and preliminary-injunction stages, but the plaintiffs need to certify a class under Rule 23 before the permanent-injunction stage if they want sweeping relief.

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Jeannine Johnson's avatar

Yay! Great way to start the weekend!

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Eric Johnson's avatar

If SCOTUS limits district courts would it be retroactive. Would that apply to all cases district courts have frozen?

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Ray Zielinski's avatar

Gee, I wonder who cast the dissenting votes.

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Tex237's avatar

The immigration deportation system began giving suspected undocumented individuals one-page notices, written in English only, telling them they have 24 hours to challenge their deportation. Of course, most don't read or speak English and are not permitted phone calls, even if they knew who to call for help.

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