The New Yorker:

In an overnight ruling, the Justices defended the rule of law. Will their toughness last?

By Ruth Marcus

The most heartening, and maybe most important, event of the Trump Administration so far arrived just before 1 a.m., on Saturday, in the form of an unsigned order from the Supreme Court. The order—responding to an emergency request to prevent the immediate removal of Venezuelan migrants—was gratifyingly unambiguous. “The Government,” it said, “is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court.”

Thank God for the Supreme Court. This is not a sentence that I have been accustomed to typing in recent years—not since President Trump, during his first term, engineered a six-Justice conservative super-majority. But, at a time when the legislative branch has been shamefully supine and the public has been alarmingly complacent, the federal courts represent the last best hope—at least, until the midterm elections—of combatting Trump’s outrages against the Constitution.

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