About that USSC deportation ruling

Different takes, but the one that matters is the dissent.

There is a ton of different opinions about what the ruling means, but at the end of the day the minority seemed most upset with the idea that the individual detainees must challenge their cases via Habeas Corpus versus the Administration Procedure Act. What this apparently means is that there will not be a hearing on the Government's actions as a whole (which is how Judge Boasberg was treating it), but rather each detainee will have the right to challenge his or her detainment individually.

Moreover, they will need to make that challenge where they are detained and not judge shop. This is the part that most analysts are talking about, but it may not be the most important.

Now for Trump, the personal win is that Boasberg will no longer be the judge calling the shots. The DOJ is arguing (and I am betting Trump will follow this advice) that because his TRO was overturned, and he lost jurisdiction, that they no longer have to deal with any of his nonsense. We'll see if he tries to still hold his contempt hearing even as his authority in the case has been removed. If he does, we will see if the administration follows along or just refuses to show up.

Whether or not the detainees are deported is probably less important in the long term than the underlying beauty of this ruling. It not only shot down the idea of judge shopping, but it also reinforced the idea that a district judge should be providing relief for those in front of them, rather than expanding their jurisdiction above and beyond. In many ways this was the ruling that the Trump Administration was looking for. This will be used as the precedent moving forward to argue both judge shopping as well as against expanded TROs in any case where individual Habeas Corpus is a valid option.

As Trump might say... this was a great ruling. Tremendous ruling. Nobody has ever seen a ruling quite like this ruling. Maybe the biggest ruling for the most important man in the world.