Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a sharp rebuke of the court’s order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport a group of Venezuelans in north Texas.
The order was issued after the American Civil Liberties Union petitioned the Supreme Court following rejections to halt the action in multiple lower federal courts on Friday. Justices Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the decision, and in it, said a statement from Alito would be forthcoming. Hours after the order, Alito offered his dissent, which was joined by Thomas.
Alito slammed his colleagues as having “hastily and prematurely granted unprecedented emergency relief,” questioning whether the Supreme Court had jurisdiction to offer the relief it granted. He also took issue with the court offering the order despite
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