......of the plan or did the pushback catch the admin off guard?
A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to cease use of an obscure wartime law to deport Venezuelans without a hearing, saying that any planes that had departed the United States with immigrants under the law needed to return.
As of early Sunday morning, it was unclear whether any such planes had departed or returned.
On Saturday, the administration published an executive order invoking the law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to target Venezuelan gang members in the United States.
But shortly after the announcement, James E. Boasberg, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., said he would issue a temporary order blocking the government from deporting any immigrants under the law.
www.nytimes.com
Put another way, when Russ Vought sat down to write the P 2025 playbook, the one trump knows nothing about

, was it his desire to see virtually every part of its enactment challenged in court? Did Pam Bondi know what was coming when she incredulously answered a question during her confirmation testimony about how she would handle trump asking her to use the DoJ for illegal acts?
Does the board think the necessity of funneling multiple cases questioning the authority trump is asserting to his friendly SC was eagerly anticipated or an unexpected obstacle?
Is the rule of law being intentionally broken so it can be reshaped to match trump's desires or did they think the fictitious mandate Don has claimed would be enough to steamroll the Constitution?
BTW, Judge Boasberg was originally nominated to be a judge by Shrub.