Midnight Supreme Court Order Halts Trump-Era Deportations of Venezuelans, Alito Slams Ruling as “Unprecedented”
In a dramatic late-night intervention, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan detainees held in northern Texas under a centuries-old wartime law, drawing a sharp dissent from Justice Samuel Alito. The brief order—issued “literally in the middle of the night,” according to Alito—came without detailed explanation, as is standard in emergency…