Over the Easter weekend, the Supreme Court issued a remarkable order in the wee hours of Saturday morning blocking President Donald Trump from immediately removing a group of Venezuelan immigrants from a detention center in Texas and, potentially, sending them to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

In an extraordinary, if perhaps temporary, rebuke to the Trump administration, the Supreme Court issued an order at around 1 a.m. on Saturday forbidding the government from deporting a group of Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act.

The ruling, by a presumed seven-to-two vote, signaled genuine fury at the failure of Trump officials to abide by the law and, even more to the point, the directives of judges, including those on the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to rule for parents in Maryland who objected on religious grounds to books made available in a school district's elementary schools that feature stories about gay and transgender characters.

Members of the 6-3 conservative majority, which often backs religious rights, seemed sympathetic during the lively 2½-hour oral argument toward the parents’ claims that the Montgomery County Board of Education violated their religious rights by failing to provide an opt-out for their children.

The Supreme Court will consider on Tuesday whether parents can opt out of their kids reading LGBTQ books in the classroom that conflict with their family’s faith. 

Parents in Montgomery County, Maryland are claiming their children’s schools are violating their religious freedom by not allowing them to opt out of lessons that use books featuring LGBTQ storylines.

A majority of the Supreme Court appeared inclined Monday to reject a conservative challenge to Obamacare, leaving in place the federal government’s authority to require insurers to cover everything from depression screenings to HIV prevention drugs at no cost to patients.

And, in an odd twist, it was the Trump administration defending the health law that the president has spent more than a decade excoriating.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito faulted his colleagues for temporarily halting deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act “literally in the middle of the night.”

Alito’s dissent, also sent out at nearly midnight Saturday, came after the court agreed in the early hours of the morning to block for now any additional flights that would transport migrants to a Salvadoran prison.

Preventive healthcare measures, including certain free screenings, tests, and medications, could be put on the chopping block this week as the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in the fourth case related to Obamacare preventive coverage mandates.

The Supreme Court early Saturday halted the administration’s ability to use the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport migrants to El Salvador who are being detained in portions of Texas, for now. 

The emergency order temporarily blocks the deportations until the high court resolves the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) emergency appeal, which was filed hours earlier over concerns that more deportation flights were imminent.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling early Saturday morning blocking, at least for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law.

The justices instructed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in Texas' Bluebonnet Detention Center "until further order of this court."

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the majority opinion.

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in May on the Justice Department's emergency request to narrow a string of district court orders blocking President Donald Trump's executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship from taking effect.

While the Trump administration has not yet asked the high court to rule on the constitutionality of the president's order, it has requested that the justices address the use of universal injunctions, which go far beyond the parties involved in a case to apply to anyone who could be affected.