Andrew Arthur

The ruling was inevitable, but Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence shows the majority’s patience with lower courts on immigration matters is wearing thin.

DOJ argues the “injunction wrongly brands countless lawful stops as unconstitutional, thereby hampering a basic law-enforcement tool, while turning every single stop in” a massive district where 10 percent of the population is here illegally “into a potential contempt trap”. Don’t be surprised if a majority of the Supreme Court agrees.

The only question before the Court was whether district courts could issue so-called “nationwide” or “universal” injunctions blocking executive actions. Long story short: They can’t.

The Alien Enemies Act has been rarely used, and Trump’s basis for invoking it is novel. But, in the rush to protect the due process rights of aliens alleged to be members of TdA, a criminal group wreaking havoc across the Americas, the Supreme Court should remember the American people have rights, too — and expectations of their highest court.

The Supreme Court’s June 14 opinion in Campos-Chaves is likely the most important immigration ruling in history you’ve never heard of, and likely won’t hear about again.