SCOTUS Overturns Blockade On Trump’s Third-Country Deportations:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday once again shut down a lower court blockade against a key component of President Trump’s deportation agenda. The vote was 6-3, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in dissent.
In its unsigned order, the high court granted the Trump administration’s request to pause a ruling issued by Massachusetts-based District Judge Brian Murphy. The Biden appointee’s directive sought to block the government’s deportation of illegal aliens to third countries –countries not of their national origin.
The ruling is the third instance in which the administration asked the Supreme Court for relief in the case. The first occurred last year, when the high court stayed (6-3) Murphy’s preliminary injunction blocking third-country deportations.
Murphy would go on to issue an order to the administration hours later, claiming that the Supreme Court’s ruling did not affect his initial blockade on the policy. The government returned to the justices and asked them to clarify their order. This time, in a 7-2 decision, SCOTUS affirmed that its ruling did, in fact, cover Murphy’s initial injunction.
Murphy’s refusal to follow the high court prompted stern criticism from Justice Elena Kagan. In a statement concurring with the court’s clarification, the Obama appointee noted that, although she disagreed with the majority’s initial decision to block Murphy’s injunction, she does “not see how a district court can compel compliance with an order that this Court has stayed.”
Murphy ultimately issued a final judgment blocking the third-country deportations in February. While the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals initially sided with the administration in pausing that order, it later permitted the Biden appointee’s ruling to go into effect earlier this month --->READ MORE HERE
Supreme Court lets quick deportations to third countries resume for now while it weighs Trump policy:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump’s administration continue swiftly deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal.
The apparent 6-3 order temporarily lifts lower court requirements for migrants to get a chance to object before being sent to countries to which they have no ties.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in December.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have kept the lower court order in place.
The Trump administration said last week the lower court order forced the cancellation of a deportation flight carrying about 70 people bound for three countries.
The conservative majority has sided with the administration before on the core Trump administration policy, allowing deportation flights to temporarily continue last year.
The court said it will consider several questions: whether the policy is lawful, whether lower courts had the authority to consider the case and issue a sweeping block, as well as other questions the government deems appropriate.
The order “has now allowed the administration to resume sending people to third countries where they may face persecution, torture, imprisonment, or other grave danger,” said Trina Realmuto, executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance and one of the lawyers representing immigrants in the case. --->READ MORE HERE
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