Two weeks after entering the Kentucky Derby as the favorite only to finish second, Journalism appeared beaten again entering the final straightaway at Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, the middle leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown. Once trailing by as many as five lengths, Journalism was still far behind Gosger at the top of the homestretch as it squeezed between Clever Again and Goal Oriented — the horses so close they and their jockeys rubbed together — before finally finding open ground. From there, with jockey Umberto Rispoli urging him on, Journalism ran down Gosger at the post, needing all of the course’s 1 3/16th miles to author a stunning comeback victory at the 150th Preakness at Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course. It was the second Preakness victory for Journalism's trainer, Michael W. McCarthy, who previously won in 2021 with Rombauer. As the gap between the leader and Journalism widened, McCarthy said he was resigned to a loss. “My initial thought was, ‘Proud of the horse,’” McCarthy said. “‘Great effort, just gonna come up a little bit short.’” Except, the race was far from over. Gosger finished second, with Sandman third. “The horse is a champion,” Aron Wellman, a co-owner of Journalism, said on NBC in the winner’s circle. “Our jockey Umberto Rispoli is a champion. Our trainer Michael McCarthy is a champion.” Rispoli became the first jockey from Italy to win a Triple Crown race. “I wish everybody over there are proud of me,” Rispoli said. Journalism outlasted eight other competitors, a small field that did not include Derby winner Sovereignty, after trainer Bill Mott withdrew the horse due to the short turnaround between races. It marked the third time in the last four years that the Derby winner skipped the Preakness. The Triple Crown, Mott said earlier this month, is “not something we’re not going to think about.” It was the fifth time in the last seven years that the Preakness started without a true shot at the Triple Crown, a trend that has sparked a debate about whether the two-week turnaround between Triple Crown races has become antiquated. The field of nine horses was still anticipated as the trainers — including Bob Baffert and his record eight Preakness victories, and D. Wayne Lukas, who has won seven times at Pimlico over 44 years — had amassed a combined 19 previous Preakness victories. Journalism was still considered the favorite following the Derby and opened with 8-5 odds Saturday morning. By race time, it had become an even bigger favorite at 6-5. Yet its path to victory was made difficult only a quarter of a mile in Saturday, as Clever Again led entering the first turn, followed closely by Gosger and River Thames, with Journalism sixth. Both Rispoli, the jockey, and McCarthy, the trainer, said in post-race interviews they believed their horse was in trouble and might run hard, only to come in second, as at the Derby. Yet Journalism was in first at the end, right on deadline.

Michael McCarthy had just witnessed a display of resilience unfold in front of him at the Preakness Stakes on Saturday when he referenced another. “We’ll rebuild,” McCarthy told NBC in a televised interview from the wet track of Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course, just minutes after his horse, Journalism, won the 150th running of the Triple Crown’s middle leg. “This is for Altadena.” Journalism’s victory required a comeback of more than five lengths, an improbable run that required slipping between two horses on either side as it entered the backstretch, then furiously making up ground on leader Gosger, never taking the lead until the final strides. The route was unexpected and challenging — not all that dissimilar to what its trainer had endured since January wildfires in Southern California displaced McCarthy and his family from their home. As flames creeped within a reported 600 feet of the walls of McCarthy’s Altadena home, he, his wife and daughter left at 4:40 a.m. and checked in to a hotel, The Athletic reported last month. McCarthy’s home in Altadena suffered smoke damage but ultimately survived what became known as the Eaton Fire, named for a nearby canyon from which it originated and grew into a blaze that would kill 18 people. But his neighborhood was largely destroyed, as was the city where he was raised. What remained in Altadena was “just chimneys,” McCarthy told NBC Sports last month. Together the Eaton and nearby Palisades Fire, which also ignited in early January in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, and also spread via extreme winds, destroyed an estimated 16,000 structures, impacted more than 30,000 people and caused an economic loss of more than $250 billion. On the morning of Jan. 8 when the fire broke out, 3-year-old Journalism was in the back right corner of its stall in a barn at Santa Anita Park in nearby Arcadia, “which is where they go when they know something is going on,” McCarthy told NBC Sports’ Tim Layden. The trainer decided to move Journalism and other horses out of the barn that day and had them driven near San Diego as a precaution. Aron Wellman, a co-owner of Journalism, told The Athletic last month that “there were a lot of moving parts” as the fires broke out. “The weight of the world was on Michael’s shoulders there for a bit,” he said. When, four days later, Journalism was brought back to Santa Anita, his trainer remarked that the horse appeared unaffected by the disruption taking place around him. It was a foreshadowing of the unflappability the horse used to win at Pimlico on Saturday. Considered the betting favorite to win the May 3 Kentucky Derby, Journalism finished second when it was unable to catch Sovereignty. The Derby champion was not entered at the Preakness because of the two-week turnaround. It used to be rare for a Derby champion to skip the Preakness, and thus miss out on the possibility of winning horse racing’s Triple Crown, which ends with the Belmont Stakes. Yet this year marked the third time in the last four years the Preakness field has not included the Derby winner. The trend has created a debate about whether the Triple Crown, with three races spaced apart by just two weeks, is too taxing on horses. Only three horses in the Preakness field had also raced in the Kentucky Derby. “I think it says a lot about him,” McCarthy said after the race. “None of these Triple Crown races are easy to get to, you certainly need the vehicle, and we had it with him.” In a nine-horse field Saturday, Journalism sat in sixth through the backstretch of the 1 3/16-mile track, and appeared too far back to make a challenge entering the homestretch in front of the Pimlico grandstand that will soon be demolished. Yet Journalism showed why it was the pre-race favorite, with 6-5 odds, by charging to a victory. The comeback “defied logic,” Wellman said after the race. “I just think that this victory symbolizes so much about life,” Wellman said. “It took guts for Mike McCarthy to make this call to come here. It took guts for [jockey] Umberto Rispoli to power his way through a seemingly impossible hole, getting sideswiped and threading the needle and powering on through. And it took guts from an incredible horse to somehow will his way to victory.”

Oklahoma City has the likely MVP on its roster, but all season long its calling card was its defense — getting stops and turning those into transition offense fueled a 68-win regular season. It also led to a Game 7 win against Denver — particularly in an 18-5 run to end the first half, which changed the game. That run had the Nuggets up by 14 at the half, a lead that stretched to 23 just a minute-and-a-half into the second half. It was all Thunder the rest of the way — they had a 93.9 defensive rating for the day — and by 9:12 in the fourth quarter it was a 30-point game and Nuggets interim coach David Adelman emptied his bench. In the end it was a 125-93 OKC win that puts the Thunder through to the Western Conference Finals, taking the series 4-3. Minnesota will be in Oklahoma City on Tuesday night to open the West finals. This series and this Game 7 took the Thunder from a team with potential to one that looks the part of a champion. “We’re better now than we were at the beginning of the series, and it’s because of them,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. “[Denver] pushed us to the limit.” Shai Gilgeous-Alexander looked like an MVP Sunday with 35 points on 12-of-19 shooting Sunday, but what won the game was the Thunder’s role players stepping up: • Jalen Williams scored 24 points with seven assists. • Alex Caruso did a brilliant job as the primary defender on Nikola Jokic, harassing the two-time MVP into a human night (20 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists) while scoring 11 points himself. • Chet Holmgren had 13 points and 11 rebounds. Those points didn’t come because the Thunder were bombing away from 3 — they shot 30.8% on the night — but in the paint, where the Thunder scored 64 points before both coaches emptied their benches. It took seven games, but the Thunder finally figured out how to score against the Nuggets’ zone defense, by getting the ball to a player at the free throw line and having a strong finisher cutting out of the dunker’s spot. Denver looked the more comfortable team in the bright lights early, racing out to a 21-10 lead. Oklahoma City was pressing, missing 3s (they started 0-of-6) and aiming shots. The Nuggets have been here and done this, they got to the rim and with that got eight early free throws. Aaron Gordon played through a strained hamstring and gave it everything he had, finishing with eight points and 11 rebounds, but he moved slowly all night and was a shell of himself. “What he played with today, I don’t know many people that would even attempt to go out there and run up and down,” Nuggets interim coach David Adelman said. “And he did it in Game 7 against Oklahoma City on the road. That that was one of most incredible things I’ve ever seen. He was extremely close to not playing. I was surprised.” Christian Braun made plays and stepped up with 19 points, but after that, things fell off. Jamal Murray was 6-of-16 shooting in the face of defensive pressure from Lu Dort and Cason Wallace. Denver led by five after one quarter, but to start the second Adelman sat both Jokic and Murray, and the result was a 6-0 Thunder run 1:02 that put Oklahoma City back in the lead. It was close most of the second quarter until the 18-5 run at the end. Things just snowballed from there. Denver now heads into an offseason without a formal head coach — although after this run and his performance, David Adelman should have the interim tag removed — and they need to find a new general manager. That person will walk a fine line, trying to find a way to get more around Nikola Jokic while he’s in his prime — more shooting, more athleticism, more depth — and doing so while not spending deep into the luxury tax.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jon Rahm appeared on the verge of doing what few thought possible — overcoming a five-shot deficit on the final day of a major championship to beat Scottie Scheffler. And then came the collapse. After battling back to tie the top-ranked Scheffler with a birdie on the 11th hole, Rahm turned what seemed like a foregone conclusion of a Scheffler victory into an entertaining back nine at the PGA Championship — at least for a while. But the two-time major champion missed birdie putts on the 14th and 15th holes and hooked drives on Nos. 16 and 18, playing the final three holes in 5 over par, leaving him trying to process his thoughts after his round. “Am I embarrassed a little bit about how I finished today? Yeah,” Rahm said. “But I just need to get over it, get over myself. It’s not the end of the world. It’s not like I’m a doctor or a first responder, where somebody if they have a bad day, truly bad things happen. I’ll get over it. I’ll move on.” The Spanish star wound up with a 2-over 73 on Sunday and tied for eighth place, eight shots behind Scheffler . That would have been inconceivable outcome for Rahm just an hour before. “The last three holes, it’s a tough pill to swallow right now,” Rahm said. “Especially knowing 16 is not the narrowest fairway in the world. That bunker is in play. You’re lucky enough, you have a shot to the pin. Not a terrible swing, but bad enough to put me in a real difficult situation.” But Rahm said in hindsight he felt the tournament began to slip away on the 14th hole. Dressed in all black with a pink hat on an 85-degree day, Rahm was looking to become the seventh player to win the PGA Championship after trailing by five or more shots entering the final round. He blasted his tee shot on the 14th hole 340 yards onto the oblong green, but instead of the ball tracking toward the flagstick in the back it took a nasty bounce into the bunker. He hit out of the sand to 10 feet still hoping to save birdie, but misread his birdie putt and had to settle for par. He misread another birdie putt on 15 and took another par. The momentum from his birdie binge on Nos. 8, 10 and 11 was long gone and his confidence seemed shaken. He had errant drives on 16 and 18 and made double bogeys on the final two holes. “I think it was a bit of nerves,” Rahm said. “Can’t pinpoint exactly right now. I’ll go back to what happened. I didn’t feel like I rushed anything. I didn’t feel like the process was bad.” Rahm left the course disappointed, receiving a long embrace from his wife. He said when he has time to reflect on the week, he may view it in a different light. For 15 holes he said it was the most fun he’s had on the golf course in quite a while. And, he had played himself into contention on the final day of a major championship for the first time since leaving the PGA Tour for LIV Golf in December, 2023. “Again, there’s a lot more positive than negative to think about this week,” Rahm said. “I’m really happy I put myself in position and hopefully learn from this and give it another go in the U.S. Open. ... I think it’s the first time I’ve been in position to win a major that close and haven’t done it. The only times I think I’ve been in the lead in a major on a Sunday, I’ve been able to close it out. “This is a very different situation,” he added.

Turns out, it wasn’t just Rory McIlroy who failed a driver test earlier this week at Quail Hollow. The eventual PGA champion did, too. Scottie Scheffler confirmed that his driver also was deemed non-conforming by the USGA, which conducts the testing for the PGA of America, before teeing it up in the 107th PGA Championship. Scheffler’s fellow competitor Xander Schauffele first told reporters of Scheffler’s failed test earlier in the day. “The driver testing is something that regularly happens on Tour,” Scheffler said Sunday evening after his five-shot victory. “My driver did fail me this week. We had a feeling that it was going to be coming because I’ve used that driver for over a year. I was kind of fortunate for it to last that long, I felt like.” Modern drivers get hotter the more they are hit, which leads to the faces of older drivers thinning and eventually failing the characteristic time test, which measures the spring-like effect of the club. The PGA Tour has been testing drivers at its events since the 2019-20 season, though doesn’t test every driver, every week. Scheffler said he and TaylorMade were “really well prepared” for when his older driver ultimately became non-conforming. With his replacement, he ranked fifth in strokes gained off the tee this week, though he did struggle in Sunday’s final round, hitting just six of 14 fairways. “No, I think that was my fault,” Scheffler said with a big laugh when asked in that inaccuracy was due to the new equipment. More seriously, Scheffler, like Schauffele did hours before him, criticized the randomness of the testing. “I would argue that if we’re going to test the drivers, we need to be even more robust in the way we test them,” Scheffler said. “That was a conversation I had with one of the rules officials; if it’s something we’re going to take seriously, I feel like we’re almost going halfway with it right now. If we’re going to test only a third of the field, if we’re going to do it right, leave it up to us as players, like the rest of the rules in the game of golf are. “It’s a newer rule that we haven’t quite gotten right yet. I think we have some stuff to figure out. I think, if we’re going to do it, we might as well do it right, get more robust and get even more strict. You can test guys every week, if you want. I mean, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t.”

While we wait for the full details of the new Brock Purdy contract, another favorable detail has been leaked. Via NFL Media, Purdy’s six-year contract comes with a no-trade clause. The no-trade device is becoming a more and more common aspect of high-end quarterback deals. And while news of a no-trade typically provokes oohs and ahhs, there’s an inescapable reality when it comes to players with starting-quarterback contracts. A no-trade clause isn’t really necessary, because no one is going to trade for a starting quarterback who doesn’t want to go to that team. The starting quarterback is the most unique of all football players. The team needs him to be all in. To show up early. To stay late. To work on Tuesdays during the season, which almost all of them do. There’s a requisite level of commitment and preparation that transcends punching a time clock and doing the bare minimum. If the starting quarterback doesn’t eagerly embrace the team that is interested in trading for him, a trade becomes far less likely. So while Purdy is protected against the kind of sudden and abrupt transaction that would send him from the 49ers to some other team, that’s never going to happen, with or without a no-trade clause. If he’s performing well enough to justify the ongoing investment, the 49ers will want to keep him. If he regresses, it’s not likely that someone else will gladly inherit the balance of his contract. The most important details for the Purdy deal remain to be seen. The numbers won’t be available until after the contract is signed and filed with the league and the union. That’s when we’ll know the full extent of the commitment, both in dollars and in years.

Another fierce storm system hit the central United States this weekend, devastating many communities that are still reeling from severe weather just weeks ago. On Friday night, a series of tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, killing at least 28 and injuring dozens more. Kentucky and Missouri were hit particularly hard, with 26 deaths occurring there. The storms are the latest deadly chapter in an especially brutal spring. In April, similar storms caused deadly flooding and more destruction, also hitting Kentucky and Missouri. The stretch of inclement weather comes as federal weather and emergency management workers struggle to keep up in the face of recent federal work force cuts. Here’s what to know about this storm system. ‘A continuous stream of storms’ This system consisted of supercells, or highly organized, longer-lasting storms that produce stronger winds and larger hail than typical thunderstorms. The supercells then spawned tornadoes beginning Friday afternoon around the system’s bull’s-eye, which was centered over parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. Government forecasters said on Saturday that a preliminary count showed that 26 tornadoes had touched down, mostly in Indiana and Kentucky. That number pales in comparison with the tornado outbreak during the April storms, which was 107, but officials in the bombarded states said that residents were still dealing with the damage from previous storms. “We’ve been under almost a continuous stream of storms,” said Chad Jenkins, the emergency management director for Brown County, Ind., where at least five people were injured. “It’s been a pretty turbulent spring for us.” At least 19 people have been killed in Kentucky since Friday, with 17 in Laurel County, one in Pulaski County and one in Russell County, Gov. Andy Beshear said. On Sunday, 10 people were still being treated at the University of Kentucky Hospital for injuries from the storm, and three were in critical condition, the governor wrote on X. One of those killed was a firefighter who was with the Laurel County Fire Department for 39 years, Major Leslie Leatherman. He was fatally injured during overnight tornado response efforts, according to a statement from the Fire Department. “This is a heartbreaking reminder of the dangers our first responders face every day and the incredible bravery they show in the face of disaster,” the department said in a social media post. The town of London, Ky., about 90 miles south of Lexington, was especially distraught. Neighborhoods in the small town near the Appalachians were covered in piles of debris, downed trees and personal items strewed over plots of land. Over the weekend, friends and neighbors surveyed the damage, sifted through the rubble and rescued people who were trapped under the wreckage. Kentucky has been pummeled in recent years by extreme weather, including several devastating floods, the most recent of which occurred in February. As much as seven inches of rain caused swollen rivers to overflow into communities then, including some that were still reeling from catastrophic floods in 2022, when at least 45 people died. Two dozen counties across the state had just been approved Wednesday for federal aid. The latest damage will add to an already precarious state of disaster relief efforts, as sweeping staffing and funding cuts have upended the usual processes for receiving assistance from the federal government. But on Saturday, Governor Beshear, a Democrat, praised the White House and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying they had “performed well” in response to the recent storms. Take It Outside! 24 Easy-to-Pack Recipes for Summer Picnics, Beach Days and More “Politics has no place in responding to natural disasters like this one,” he said. At least seven people died in Missouri, five of them in St. Louis. Two people were killed in Scott County, in southeastern Missouri, officials said. In St. Louis, Mayor Cara Spencer said at a news conference on Saturday that she would “describe this as one of the worst storms” in the city’s history. She added that early estimates showed that about 5,000 buildings had sustained damage. The storm started there around 3 p.m. local time on Friday and damaged an area of about 20 square blocks, according to the city’s fire commissioner, Dennis Jenkerson. Vivian Reed, a caretaker, said she had been looking after a 100-year-old client south of Forest Park all day on Friday. When she arrived home in the evening, branches and debris covered her yard, her grandchildren’s play cars had been crushed by trees and windows had been broken. “One second, it’s a beautiful sunny day,” Ms. Reed said. “And the next second, you look out and see all the devastation.” Also in the tornado’s path was the Centennial Christian Church, where three church members were trapped after the storm destroyed part of the building’s steeple. Two people were safely pulled from the wreckage, said the church’s pastor, the Rev. Derrick Perkins. But one, a longtime ministry leader, was killed, adding to the community’s grief, he said. In other parts of the country, at least two people died in Virginia as a result of the storms. In both cases, trees fell on the vehicles the people were in, authorities said. And in Indiana, more than a dozen people have been injured by tornadoes. After a short reprieve, more inclement weather is expected. For the next day or so, the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions could see a reprieve from severe weather, according to the National Weather Service. On Saturday, the storm system moved east, bringing a smattering of thunderstorms across New England before dissipating. But a separate storm system could bring more rain and thunderstorms to many of the same states, including Missouri and Kentucky, within the next few days — though at a less intense level. Still, golf-ball-sized hail and fierce winds could hit the southern Great Plains and parts of southern Oklahoma and northern Texas, including Dallas and Fort Worth.

On Sunday morning in a small Kentucky city, the sun shone and birds chirped. They provided an incongruent backdrop to a scene that looked like a war zone. Just two days before, a fierce tornado carved a 16-mile path of destruction through Laurel County, Ky., and in its county seat of London, the damage was clear: roofs ripped from homes, tree limbs sheared off, cars left as twisted hunks of metal. And several residents dead. By the afternoon, the Sunshine Hills neighborhood of London was filled with the cacophonous beeping of backhoes, accompanied by an army of faith-based volunteers. Those volunteers were among the many people in London, a city of 8,000 about 80 miles south of Lexington, who worked together this weekend to help not only those in need but also the whole community as it tried to process the disaster. Amid the grief and devastation, ensuring displaced people got the necessary supplies and assistance was top of mind for many. “It didn’t seem right to be sitting at home with our property being untouched with so many people struggling,” said Hannah Clark, who lives in neighboring Pulaski County but came to London to volunteer. The tornado was part of a storm system that tore through the central United States starting Friday, killing at least 28 people. Of those, 19 died in Kentucky, all but two in Laurel County. Outside of Kentucky, Missouri was also hit hard: Seven people died in that state, with five in St. Louis. Most of the victims in Laurel County were killed in Sunshine Hills, according to Gilbert Acciardo, a public affairs official for the county sheriff’s office, who did not give an exact number. Many of them were older, ranging in age from 50 to 70. Vanessa Mullins is one of the Sunshine Hills residents whose home was destroyed. Late Friday night, the sound of a thundering whistle rumbled through the hilly subdivision, she said, and she huddled in the bathroom with her son and her boyfriend. The house shook, shampoo bottles fell, dust fluttered from the ceiling — and then, quiet.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Washington is about to host a global festival for the LGBTQ community and its allies—all while President Donald Trump is in the White House overseeing a government that is wholly hostile to the visitors’ goals. WorldPride, which last came to the United States in 2019 and drew 5 million visitors to New York, is expected to bring as many as 3 million people to the capital region starting Saturday and going through June 8, with more general Pride Month events continuing beyond that. But the events are opening under the cloud of Trumpism that is waging a campaign against LGBTQ protections, a Congress where lawmakers are policing their own bathrooms against transgender individuals and misgendering colleagues, and a Supreme Court that recently held that the Pentagon could ban some service members based on their gender identities. Advertisement Recent WorldPrides in cities like Sydney, Copenhagen, and Madrid were awash in corporate logos. Now that it’s D.C.’s turn, multiple corporate sponsors—including Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, and Comcast—pulled out for fear of triggering the White House’s retaliation. For those outside of the U.S., attending this year’s WorldPride requires unusual considerations. Several countries—Denmark, Germany, and Ireland among them—have issued travel advisories warning trans and non-binary individuals that a U.S. jaunt might be undertaken at their own risk. Egale Canada—think the Human Rights Campaign of our neighbors to the north—are sitting out the entire affair. And the African Human Rights Coalition is boycotting. Even organizers with DC WorldPride, the umbrella group coordinating dozens of organizations like the long-standing local Capital Pride Alliance, are warning that they cannot guarantee a smooth run of show. In a first, the two-day street fair downtown will be fenced in with security checkpoints, reflecting not just the attention around this marquee event but also the troubling reality that anti-LGBTQ incidents are rising around the country. And never far from mind at these events is the memory of the 2016 Pulse shooting that left 49 dead and 53 wounded at an Orlando hub of LGBTQ nightlife. Put in the plainest terms possible, Washington, D.C. under Donald Trump is not providing the warmest of welcomes for an event that cities around the world compete to land. Attendance is expected to sag below original expectations, which may, in fact, be viewed as a win for a regime that is constantly stoking its base with culture-war rot that exploits division for political gain. Even so, organizers still expect an influx of $787 million in Pride spending. Taking part in any Pride is inherently a political act, but that's especially true in Washington, which has the largest concentration of LGBTQ individuals in the country. Lobbyists march in the parade which ends with the backdrop of the U.S. Capitol, the signage always with a whiff of campaigns. The nation’s capital is always ripe with virtue signaling—even holiday celebrations in December can’t escape that trend. But since Trump returned to power, things have been a little less surefooted. In his first hours back in office, Trump ended federal recognition of transgender or non-binary identities. The White House says it will not issue a proclamation that June is Pride Month or host any events. Its top spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, used her first on-camera meeting with her press corps to decry “transgenderism and wokeness.” The Kennedy Center, which Trump took over and appointed his loyalists to handle programming, canceled all of its contracts for Pride events. (These were in addition to a joint Gay Men’s Chorus-National Symphony Orchestra program this month that got canned at the Kennedy Center.)

The Supreme Court on Friday blocked the Trump Administration from using a wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador, delivering yet another legal setback to President Donald Trump’s controversial deportation plans. The ruling extends the court’s April emergency order barring Trump from using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants held in a Texas detention facility, after lawyers said the detainees were being put on buses towards an airport without a chance to challenge the decision via habeas corpus petitions. Advertisement Only two of the court’s Justices—Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas—publicly noted their dissent. Alito wrote that the Supreme Court had “no authority to issue any relief." In its unsigned order on Friday, the Justices faulted the Trump Administration for only giving detained migrants 24 hours to raise legal objections: "Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster," the ruling said. The Justices sent the case back to an appeals court to determine what due process the detainees should receive, as well as whether Trump’s deportation plan is legal, and how much notice the migrants are required to get. Soon after the Court issued its ruling, Trump expressed his disagreement on social media. "THE SUPREME COURT WON’T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!" he wrote. The Court did not weigh in on the underlying question of whether the Trump Administration can deport people under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used 18th century wartime law that the Administration has cited in its deportations of Venezuelans it alleges are members of the gang Tren de Aragua. The Alien Enemies Act can only be used during “invasions or predatory incursions,” but the government has argued that the gang is mounting an incursion into the U.S. and that it’s closely linked to the Venezuelan government. Legal scholars and immigration activists have admonished the Trump Administration’s efforts to deport migrants without giving them a chance to contest claims that they are gang members, including the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man the government mistakenly deported to El Salvador. The Supreme Court noted in its ruling that the Trump Administration has claimed it can not bring Abrego Garcia back even though it ruled that the government must "facilitate" his return, suggesting that “the detainees’ interests at stake are accordingly particularly weighty.” Trump has undermined that claim, saying in an ABC News interview last month that he could retrieve Garcia but was refusing to do so.