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"For all the rhetoric of the dissents, today’s order and per curiam confirm that the detainees subject to removal orders under the AEA are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal," they wrote.

They took this case and treated it as if it were a cert petition, which means they were going to hear it on the merits, and they issued a per curiam decision, meaning a decision without giving any author.

But as the court has been drawn into Trump’s legal woes, it has become front-page news in recent weeks, both for the strikingly political and deeply consequentialist “per curiam” decision to rewrite the text of the 14th Amendment to keep Donald Trump on the ballot last month, and its even more harmful decision to allow his D.C. criminal trial to be delayed pending Supreme Court review, even though everyone and his cat knows that Trump’s immunity theory is risible and untenable.

The court’s opinion was an unsigned per curiam, which means no single justice has authorship.

She wrote a separate concurrence that joined only that part of the per curiam that addresses Colorado and noted that she would have gone no further.