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1. The judge was really pissed off. He is requiring sworn affidavits that prove that everyone on plane #3 has some valid basis for removal that is not AEA.

2. The government argues that planes #1 and #2 departed before the written order was entered (judge gave the oral order in court at around 6:45, written order about 45 minutes later). They listed some cases about validity of oral bench injunctions.

3. The government is pissed off with the judge. They filed these really extraordinary emergency appeals in the middle of the night in the weekend. Normally, you can’t appeal a TRO, because they’re so temporary. They wanted the appeals court to judicially bitch slap the district judge, but that didn’t happen. The appeals court is instead going to consider the appeal on an expedited, but still normalish briefing schedule.

Overall, some very exciting litigation filings going on in all of these cases, and a bunch of pissed off judges.

You can check out the Venezuelan case here and here. And Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas petition here, where Khalil’s lawyers just seriously impeached the credibility of Joyce’s sworn affidavits.

The entirety of Indian Removal (aka the Trail of Tears) was ruled to be illegal by the Supreme Court, but it still happened anyway.

80,000 non-alien US citizens of Japanese descent were sent to concentration camps for years, under this exact same Alien Enemies Act. This was also illegal (Ex Parte Endo).

Somehow, “American Democracy” and “Constitutional rights” are deemed to have survived those incidents.