The fate of dozens of detainees in Texas remained in limbo Saturday after an extraordinary middle-of-the-night emergency action by the Supreme Court temporarily barred their removal by the Trump administration.
The court did not explain its reasoning in its unsigned emergency order issued around 1 a.m. but directed the Trump administration “not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees” from the United States until further action from the Supreme Court. Two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, Jr., dissented.
Experts said the high court appeared to be taking an aggressive step by intervening in the high-profile issue at this stage but cautioned that the order does not address major underlying questions about Trump's legal authority to use the Alien Enemies Act to remove migrants from the United States.
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