James Boasberg: “This Court found that the subpoenas were meant to harass Powell and to pressure him to truckle to the President’s policy…”

Judges should not work from a desired outcome in assessing the law and facts.

Perhaps the biggest question surrounding these cases is whether the Supreme Court will stand behind the judges enforcing its rulings on the ground.

Wouldn’t it have been a better course to return the planes around the United States as opposed to going forward and saying, ‘We don’t care, we’ll do what we want’?

The government was already hustling migrants onto planes, betraying a desire to outrun the equitable reach of the judiciary.