Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley offered a translation of a scathing dissent written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over the weekend, and he’s definitely on the mark here.
As previously reported, the Supreme Court stepped in and issued an emergency injunction, halting Trump administration deportations and applying that order to what appears to be an entire class of detainees. While the majority, consisting of the Court’s liberals as well as Justices Roberts, Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch, gave no legal basis for their ruling, Alito wrote a dissent that was joined by Justice Thomas that blasted the majority’s action.
Alito pointed out three key details that gave him pause:
- The Court had no clear jurisdiction in which to act.
- The Court gave the order with no input from the government.
- The Court itself declared a crisis and then gave itself the…
