The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a prime opportunity to take up a Louisiana prison-building case that "cried out for our review," Justice Samuel Alito wrote while scolding a conservative appeals court for its "serious errors."

At the tail end of a Monday orders list , Alito, in brief dissent joined by Justice Clarence Thomas , blasted the majority of his colleagues and took the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to task for refusing to "terminate" an "unlawful prison-building order" that goes back to 2019, when a federal judge told New Orleans it had to "construct a new facility for inmates with mental-health needs."

Justice Neil Gorsuch agreed the court should have granted the writ of certiorari brought on behalf of New Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, but Gorsuch did not join the

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