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Oh god, yes. Still, between Habeas petitions, lawsuits against administration hirings and firings, and many others. The litigants are flooding the judiciary and the Supreme Court logistically can’t overrule everything.

I think the Supreme Court was just a means to an end.

Together with the executive and the legislature, that court served as a third means of what it's called a system of checks-and-balances which by principle are supposed to limit the powers of either three, and that power is never invested in the person but in the office.

However, besides they're holding the position for life, Supreme Court justices are chosen by the president and thus became heavily dependent on party alignment and some personal biases than impartiality.

Fair. Looking purely at 30k, we were already screwed, and this administration is mostly successful at speed running it. The judiciary is where we have a fighting chance, barring many people getting off their screens (self: guilty) and staying in the streets until we make structural change.*

*Defined by many different people in many different ways.

Isn't that basically ICE and the selective enforcement of the law as demonstrated in Epstein?

Are you sure you haven't been exposed to so much violence that you've been convinced to redefine it?

no one has been held in contempt still

That's just false. One already has been and more are in process.

It is still just strongly worded letters.

That too is demonstrably false. It's what the sworn declarations are all about:

And so to ensure future compliance, Judge Farber said that going forward, he's going to require two sworn declarations in every immigration habeas case. One from the head of the civil division in the US Attorney's office, attesting that she conveyed the court's order to the appropriate personnel at ICE and advised them that compliance is mandatory, and one from the New York ICE field office director, or by the New York ICE field office deputy director, attesting that he received the order and will ensure that it's carried out. That's not just for the court's informational purposes. That's Judge Farber saying, "I do not trust you and you're going to have to give me the name of the person to hold in contempt if ICE ignores my orders." -- from the above linked video, approx 11:30 and forward

That is demonstrable fact. Sworn declarations are not just strongly worded letters, any more than orders or judgements are. To expect judges to employ something other than the tools of their trade -- the "worded letters" you scorn -- is insane.

Contempt rulings against ICE attorneys have already happened. Clearly more are coming. But if you can't accept the fact of what tangibly IS, I do not expect you to accept the fact of what may possibly, intangibly be in the future, so there's that.

Sometimes people just like to shit on anything factually, tangibly good that is happening in the right direction because it is not ALL and PERFECT and EVERYTHING they want it to be. For myself, I appreciate that there are still people actually fighting and doing what they personally can do within their own sphere of influence, like these judges. They deserve to have the truth told about the good they are doing.