Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a dissenting opinion after the Supreme Court temporarily paused the Trump administration’s planned deportations of Venezuelan migrants who are accused of being Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members, under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
In a five-page dissent, Alito, along with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court had “hastily and prematurely granted unprecedented emergency relief,” according to the New York Times. Alito explained that he “refused to join the Court’s order” because the Supreme Court “had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.”
The dissent of Alito comes after the Supreme Court directed the Trump administration “not to remove any member of
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