The MAGA world went into full meltdown Saturday after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s latest deportation push—targeting a group of Venezuelan men in Texas—to allow an ongoing ACLU lawsuit against the deportations to play out.
“Generations of lawyers and judges, on both sides of the aisle, have been infected with a parasitical ideology that denies reason and common sense,” the Trump-appointed Department of Homeland Security liaison Paul Ingrassia wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
The ruling paused deportations that rely on the Alien Enemies Act—an 18th-century law invoked without due process—in a stunning 7-2 decision early Saturday. The decision has cast the country’s entire legal system as the enemy in the eyes of Trump officials and associated mouthpieces.
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The fact that the justices Trump himself appointed—Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett—appeared to side against him is an especially bitter pill for the MAGA faithful, who now find themselves laying siege to the very bench that they once celebrated as a conservative fortress.
“The Supreme Court would rather actively participate in America’s ruination, rather than work alongside the duly elected president to help reestablish the RULE OF LAW,” Ingrassia continued.
On Saturday afternoon, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the Supreme Court to reverse its order, arguing the ACLU had “improperly skipped” the lower courts. The filing did not, however, directly refute the ACLU’s core claims that migrants had been loaded onto buses, or that notices were issued only in English.
MAGA fury was not solely directed at the high court, however: The ruling comes at a time when judges across the country have pushed back on the administration’s rapid extraction policy, demanding it follow proper legal process.
“We live in a society where foreign alien terrorists have unlimited free legal representation,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Stephen Miller posted on X. “But Americans whose communities have been stolen from them are left without recourse.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took to X to express similar feelings. “We are confident we will ultimately prevail against the onslaught of meritless litigation brought by radical activists who care more about the rights of these terrorist aliens than those of the American people,” she wrote.
Tom Fitton, president of the right-wing Judicial Watch group, suggested Trump suspend habeas corpus—the constitutional legal safeguard against unlawful detention—to “reverse the Biden invasion.”
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) circulated a clip of Miller telling NewsMax the reason America no longer has a “functioning public school system” is because of “open borders.” “Who will compensate the American people for the lasting damage caused by mass illegal migration?!” she wrote, echoing Miller’s suggestion that “reparations” should be paid.
The case, which involves alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, remains on pause as SCOTUS deliberates.
