The Supreme Court’s Late-Night Rebuke to Trump Is Extraordinary in More Ways Than One

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1. Remember when they told him he could break practically any law as long as he said it was part of his job?

   It’s very funny to 6 months later be like “Hey buddy you better listen to us!”

2. *The ACLU then begged the Supreme Court for help. And the court obliged. The majority directed the government “not to remove” any of the individuals seeking relief “until further of this court.” As a result, the government was unable to deport the migrants to El Salvador—as it appeared about to do—and they remain in U.S. custody.*

   The Court not only sent signal to T, but signaled to Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas to stop messing with the Court with their delay tactics.

3. “We got what we wanted and now we have to deal with this fucking knob.” – GOP everywhere.

4. Alito and Thomas give every ruling a 2-0 advantage right off the bat every, single, time.

   Thankfully it didn’t work here.

5. I keep seeing headlines like “extraordinary” and “dramatic” but as far as I can tell, the Supreme Court blocked an obviously unlawful deportation order and that’s it, right?

   I feel like I must be missing something.

6. Yeah the challenge scenario questions shouldn’t have just been about Seal Team assassinations and included more ignored Supreme Court ruling scenarios

7. I hope the Supreme Court Justices can begin to take back their integrity and dignity that they’ve offered to Trump longest time ago . They are Trump enablers and once Trump sees you as that, he turns you into a foot stool.

8. >Second, it is plain as day that the Supreme Court simply did not trust the Trump administration’s claims that it would not deport migrants over the weekend without due process. If the court *did* believe these representations, it would not have acted in such a rapid and dramatic fashion; it could have waited for the lower courts to sort through the matter, confident no one would face irreparable harm in the meantime. The majority’s decision to wade in straightaway points to a skepticism that the Justice Department was telling the truth. It’s damning, too, that the majority did not even wait for DOJ to file a brief with the court before acting. The only plausible explanation for the court’s order is that a majority feared the government would whisk away the migrants to El Salvador if it did not intervene immediately. That fear is well-grounded, since [we now have substantial evidence](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/rubio-criminal-contempt-trump-officials-cecot.html) that the government lied to a federal judge *last* month to thwart a court order stopping deportation flights.

   >Finally, and perhaps most obviously, it’s critical that only Thomas and Alito noted their dissents. When the court takes emergency action, justices don’t *have* to note their votes, but they usually do; we can probably assume that this order was 7–2. That would mean that Chief Justice John Roberts—along Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—joined this rebuke to the Trump administration. Until now, all of these justices have, to varying degrees, treated the president with kid gloves, handing him a series of narrow wins on procedural grounds that avoided direct collision between the branches. That accommodation came to an abrupt stop on Saturday.

9. Trump’s post about district court judge Boasberg:

   *This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!*

   Judges must be wondering whether Trump will start booking one-way flights for them if he isn’t stopped now.

10. This is fantastic and I hope this trend of good sense continues.

    But the whole thing is so bizarre! These are the same people that decided he’s the king over everything and can do as he pleases. Surely they can’t be so daft as to think that this current nonsense with illegal kidnappings and deportations wouldn’t be the logical outcome of that decision. So why this, why now? These recent decisions are actions we’d expect from a court with a Democratic majority, not a Republican supermajority.

11. gee, if only there was some third branch of government to weigh in when two other branches of government are in a pissing contest?

12. Uh huh. And who is going to enforce it?

    That’s what I thought. He’s not going to listen to SCOTUS or anyone. He’s looking for his Reichstag Fire. He wants confrontation. People have said this since day fucking one and it’s like no one is listening. Or they’re still laboring under the fantasy there are guardrails and institutions that will slow him down.

    *Thats not how fascism works.* Wake. The. Fuck. Up. America.

13. IAAL: I had very, very little faith in the Roberts court. They’ve been enthusiastic participants in walking us into this mess. But Slate is correct in their analysis here: there is no other plausible read to this order other than the Court having a complete loss of confidence in this administration. They are doing it slowly, but they’re clearly pulling off the gloves. We can all wish this had happened six months or a year ago, and it *should* have, while still celebrating progress. This is important.

    ETA: I’ll add that, if the Court unequivocally came out against the administration as lawbreakers, that *would* sway some Congressional Republicans towards impeachment. Would it be enough? Unknown. But the Court may have more sway than any other remaining American institution.

14. John Roberts, no matter how much he tries, is going to behind Roger Taney because he’s an ineffectual coward. At least Taney was honest about his evil.

15. I’m curious to see Alito’s desent when finished. What possible justification could he (his aides) come up with?

16. Call me when something actually changes. I’ve heard enough “extraordinary” rebukes to last me a lifetime and they’ve accomplished exactly fuck all.

17. It’s so crazy that it’s just openly acknowledged and accepted that judge Thomas is a completely bought out shill. What a disgrace to the country.

18. “Rebuked”

    Trumps response “no” and does whatever he wants with no repercussions

19. What needs to start happening is that IF the Supreme Court can’t hold the Trump administration accountable, they will need so start holding individual officials and immigration employees in contempt for violating the order to stop things at an operational level. ICE officials and department heads don’t hold the same immunity Trump does.

20. This only applies in the southern texas district that originally filed the order to stop illegally deporting people. The administration can and will continue to do this everywhere else until a nationwide order is set. And even then..

21. “We are all trying to find out who did this”

    Supreme Court

22. It’s about TIME! Keep it up there’s more to come from the liar 🤥 in chief and his corrupt government

23. Jasmine Crockett released a statement about a deportation happening in Dallas last night. I’m sure it’s these same people.

    What a fucking mess.

24. Slurping the illegitimate SCOTUS for this is a choice, I guess

25. If the future of our fucking country weren’t on the line, I’d have my popcorn out.

    Never in my life would I have thought that such a conservative supreme court could be the last bulwark against a despot.

26. Isn’t all this too late and won’t mean anything since the highest court said Trump can break laws as long as they are “official acts”?

27. Not American, but I’ve now learned that SCOTUS, in fact, is nothing more than an advisory committee. They were created by the original Constitution with exactly zero direct enforcement capability. Law without direct ability to enforce is just philosophy. Pretty big screw up in that formerly-known-as-amazing Constitution.

    The interesting part is that I don’t think most Americans know this. For decades I kept on hearing how important SCOTUS decisions were and so I believed that to be objective. But they’re meaningless one way or another because following SCOTUS “rulings” is clearly voluntary unless some other branch of government with actual enforcement capability decides to agree. And they don’t have to.

28. All trump needs to do is call everything he does an “official act “. The Supreme Court set themselves up as being worthless after they made that decision.

29. The Supreme Court needs to start realizing they will lose their power if they don’t reign in orange man

30. > First, it acted with startling speed—so quickly, in fact, that it published the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent; he was forced to note only that a “statement” would “follow.” It is a major breach of protocol for the Supreme Court to publish an order or opinion before a dissenting justice finishes writing their opinion, one that reflects the profound urgency of the situation. […] only Thomas and Alito noted their dissents.

    Good to know Alito and Thomas are still scumbags on the take

31. So lemme get this straight. They gave him total and complete immunity for things he does while he is in office and they are trying to reign him in for things he is doing while he is in office that he has total and complete immunity of, which they gave him in the first place. Clear as mud. Got it.

32. Ah, this is where pride rears its head. Maybe Roberts realizes if he continues to ignore what the administration is doing, he’ll be the Chief Justice who allowed the Supreme Court to be bulldozed by a barely educated man who lies like most people breathe and who has bankrupted every company he’s ever started.

    I’m intentionally not mentioning the Constitution. The current administration doesn’t care about it, and while I wish it was more of a motivator for the current Court, I’m afraid the gift of “presidential immunity” was expressly anti-Constitutional. No, I think this may boil down to pride. And I’m ok with that, at least for now.

33. Cool, is anything actionable? How is SCOTUS going to enforce their decisions?

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