Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to use a controversial 18th century wartime authority to speed deportations, the issue has rocketed back to the justices in a second short-fuse appeal with enormous potential consequences.

One judge accused the Trump administration of drastic and un-American tactics in its removal of migrants. “This is not the Inquisition,” he said.

A federal judge in Brownsville extended a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether the administration can invoke the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act,