Justice Scalia, with whom Justice Thomas joins, dissenting. I join Part I of Justice Kennedy’s dissent, which establishes the Attorney General’s clear statutory authority to detain criminal aliens with no specified time limit. I write separately because I do not believe that, as Justice Kennedy suggests in Part II of his opinion, there may be some situations in which the courts can order release. I believe that…
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