Today’s notice: A deep dive into the Freedom Caucus. Fighting about Obamacare is back. A confusing forecast for America’s weather infrastructure. But first: Trump’s weekend of legal battles over deportations.
‘Nesting Constitutional Crises’
Courts move slowly, and it’s hard to speculate where exactly Donald Trump’s legal fight to deport another group of Venezuelan men to El Salvador ends up. But one thing is clear: The administration intends to push this envelope as far as it can, and we’re breaching the possibility of “nesting constitutional crises” because of it, NOTUS’ Jose Pagliery reports.
Over the weekend, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked a key component of the White House’s approach to deportations, which utilizes the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to round up and deport these migrants without due process. It was not a unanimous decision — Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented — but it was a sign that despite its conservative tilt, the high court is not as quick to defer to MAGA ideas as, say, the conservative-tilted Congress is these days.