Welcome to Supreme Court Brief. It was an action-packed Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, which handed down two opinions, heard two oral arguments, and issued two major orders in a pair of high-profile immigration cases out of Texas.

The first decision announced Tuesday, FBI v. Fikre, was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch and allowed a Muslim American man to pursue his lawsuit against the FBI over his placement on the "No Fly List." The government sought to escape the suit by taking him off the list and offering a half-promise not to put him back on it, but Gorsuch wrote in a unanimous opinion for the court that that wasn't good enough and that the suit can proceed, at least for now.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the court's second and final opinion of the day in Wilkinson v. Garland, ruling in favor of a Trinidadian immigrant fighting his removal from the country. In an unusual 6-3 split that saw Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. join Justices Samuel Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas in dissent, the court held that federal judges have the authority to review decisions by immigration courts about whether an immigrant's removal will result in an "exceptional or extremely unusual hardship."