While Justice Kavanaugh’s majority opinion only runs 17 pages, Justice Alito’s dissent clocks in at 28 pages. He opens with his sharp disagreement with the majority, noting:

The Court holds Texas lacks standing to challenge a federal policy that inflicts substantial harm on the State and its residents by releasing illegal aliens with criminal convictions for serious crimes. In order to reach this conclusion, the Court brushes aside a major precedent that directly controls the standing question, refuses to apply our established test for standing, disregards factual findings made by the District Court after a trial, and holds that the only limit on the power of a President to disobey a law like the important provision at issue is Congress’s power to employ the weapons of inter-branch warfare—withholding funds, impeachment and removal, etc. I would not blaze this unfortunate trail. I would simply apply settled law, which leads ineluctably to the conclusion that Texas has standing. //

Alito concludes by cautioning against the continued expansion of executive power and chiding the majority for shirking its duty:

This sweeping Executive Power endorsed by today’s decision may at first be warmly received by champions of a strong Presidential power, but if Presidents can expand their powers as far as they can manage in a test of strength with Congress, presumably Congress can cut executive power as much as it can manage by wielding the formidable weapons at its disposal. That is not what the Constitution envisions.

I end with one final observation. The majority suggests that its decision rebuffs an effort to convince us to “‘usurp’” the authority of the other branches, but that is not true. Ante, at 3. We exercise the power conferred by Article III of the Constitution, and we must be vigilant not to exceed the limits of our constitutional role. But when we have jurisdiction, we have a “virtually unflagging obligation” to exercise that authority. Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United States, 424 U. S. 800, 817 (1976). Because the majority shuns that duty, I must respectfully dissent.

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Memorial plaques on a school in russia. His dad died 21-year-old in Chechnya in 2001. He died 21-year-old in Ukraine and left no son.
All for the sake of the garbage in putin's head.

#PutinIsaWarCriminal #StandWithUkraine
9:08 AM · Jun 16, 2023

Between the war and emigration to avoid transcription, Russia may have lost most of a generation of young men. //

Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | @ChuckPfarrer
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PUTIN'S MISTAKE: RU’s demolition of the Kakhovka Dam was not only inhumane, but stupid. @bayraktar_1love posts this video of the’ desertification' of the Kakhovka reservoir. By August, this bottom land will be baked hard and UKR will use it to cross the Dnipro & flank Melitopol. //