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SCOTUS Directs Trump Not to Remove Any Member of ‘Putative Class’ of Detainees

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We really need our lawyer, Aaron Walker, to explain this one, because it's over this editor's head. Maybe he'll do a deep dive on it later, but the important thing is that in the wee hours of Saturday morning, the Supreme Court directed the Trump administration to halt every deportation undertaken pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act. As X user @amuse says, "That unsigned stay did not confine itself to the two Venezuelan petitioners who had managed to file habeas papers in the Northern District of Texas. Instead, it protected an undefined putative class that no court had certified."

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Putative: "generally considered or reputed to be." Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.

Margot Cleveland breaks down this latest case of judicial overreach in a lengthy thread:

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Agreed. It is appalling.

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Got it, we think.

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Yes, why?

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