The thick, meaty, stinky skid mark that starts at the Chief Justice’s favorite robe and stains the entire Judicial Branch – excepting two noteworthy dissenters – just keeps getting thicker, meatier, and stinkier. The Easter Weekend edition begins like this:

Supreme Court Halts Deportations Under the Alien Enemies Act

The Supreme Court temporarily halted the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan street gang early Saturday. A terse order issued on a 7-2 vote with Justices Thomas and Alito dissenting, the Court ordered the administration “not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of the Court.”

This caps off a furious day of legal maneuvering and borderline legal malpractice as the ACLU was laughed out of court in the Northern District of Texas, appealed to the Fifth Circuit and lost there, and then schlepped to the court of Resistance hero Judge James Boasberg in DC who heard their case despite a Supreme Court order telling him he had no jurisdiction in the matter. …

Upon digging a bit deeper:

Justice Alito Uses Scorching Dissent to Remind Colleagues They Have an Obligation ‘to Follow the Law’

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito unleashed a blazing dissent to the Court’s decision to insert itself into the deportation of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua thugs under the Alien Enemies Act… …Justice Alito castigated his colleagues for their decision in the early hours of Thursday to interfere in a decision that the Fifth Circuit was still adjudicating. “Shortly after midnight yesterday,” wrote Alito, “the Court hastily and prematurely granted unprecedented emergency relief.”

Alito lays out all the problems with the Court’s actions:

• It is not clear that the Court had jurisdiction. 
• The ACLU probably did not have the authority to appeal to the Fifth Circuit, much less to the Supreme Court.
• The Fifth Circuit was still considering the case when the Supreme Court intervened, even though the SCOTUS knew the Fifth Circuit would be issuing a ruling momentarily.
• The government was not given a chance to respond to the appeal.
• The evidence in the appeal does not support emergency action.
• The Court ignored events unfolding in Judge James Boasberg’s courtroom…
• The Court provided relief for a “putative class” even though no such class was certified by any court. SCOTUS has repeatedly held that a class action is inappropriate for habeas corpus relief. …

In light of Alito’s dissent and more information emerging about the timeline, it seems that Chief Justice Roberts was endorsing the emerging narrative that the Trump administration is acting lawlessly and can’t be trusted to tell the courts the truth. With this brazen disregard for rules of procedure, Roberts has moved the Supreme Court from the role of referee to that of an anti-Trump power center. That is not going to work out well.

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More from another source:

Lawfare on Steroids – SCOTUS Orders Trump to Stop Deporting Illegal Alien Gang Members, Judge Alito Eviscerates High Court for Judicial Despotism

At 1:00am on Saturday, the Supreme Court of the USA issued an injunction blocking President Trump from deporting illegal aliens identified under the Alien Enemies Act. It was/is a bizarre order considering the lower court had not even ruled on the matter; worse yet, the Supreme Court created an imaginary “class” of aliens.

Any illegal alien who happens to also be a gang member, or illegal alien who would ‘smartly’ now claim to be a gang member, is ultimately the beneficiary of a Supreme Court order blocking their removal or deportation. That’s how judicially insane this injunction is. …

An incredulous Alito concludes with the following paragraph:

“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. 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. The Executive must proceed under the terms of our order in Trump v. J. G. G., 604 U. S. _ (2025) (per curiam), and this Court should follow established procedures.” …

The bottom line appears to be the ACLU ran to the Supreme Court less than an hour after filing a responsive motion with the court of jurisdiction, solely on the false premise that some illegal alien member within the removal order process of deportation, might be removed. The Supreme Court bought the argument, created an entire class of deportees under the auspices of gang membership, and blocked President Trump from deporting anyone who might be a gang member, while the illegal aliens argue about their non-gang status.

Madness; all of it.

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A while back I asked if the sun was setting on the Un-Serious Era in America. I believe it is…as a decidedly bottom-up phenomenon (as in, the Country Class is so over this shit). It seems, however, that the Judicial Branch in general, and the Chief Justice in particular, has stockpiled a lot of Era-specific party favors and is determined to use them up before the party ends. History will not be kind to the (don’t-tell-me-he-is-not-somehow-compromised) Chief Justice and the six dolts who follow his lead on this will enjoy being largely forgotten…but the collective skid mark they continue to cultivate will draw much embarrassing attention for decades to come as DJT becomes the most written about former President since Lincoln. In both cases, it will be history well deserved.