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The Supreme Court has cleared the path for the Trump administration to deport a group of immigrants held at a U.S. military base in Djibouti to South Sudan.<\/p>\n
The order came less than two weeks after the high court temporarily stayed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, whose order barred the federal government from deporting immigrants to \u201cthird countries\u201d\u2014those not explicitly named in their removal orders\u2014without first ensuring, through a series of safeguards, that the individuals would not face torture upon deportation.<\/p>\n
Murphy\u2019s May 21 ruling found that the government violated his April 18 order by attempting to deport eight men to South Sudan. The U.S. has evacuated all non-emergency personnel from South Sudan, and the State Department advises against travel there due to \u201ccrime, kidnapping, and armed conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n
The flight carrying the immigrants bound for South Sudan instead landed in nearby Djibouti, where the men have since been held at a U.S. military base.<\/p>\n
On May 27, the Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court to stay Murphy\u2019s April 18 order, seeking permission to proceed with \u201cthird country\u201d removals while the legal battle over the practice unfolds.<\/p>\n
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer contended that Murphy\u2019s \u201cjudicially created procedures are currently wreaking havoc on the third-country removal process\u201d and \u201cdisrupt[ing] sensitive diplomatic, foreign policy, and national-security efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several hours after the Supreme Court responded to the Trump administration\u2019s first request, made on June 23, Murphy then claimed that his May 21 order remained unaffected by the high court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court the following day, requesting that the justices clarify the federal government\u2019s authority to proceed with deporting the immigrants currently held in Djibouti. Sauer urged the court to act swiftly to address what he called Murphy\u2019s \u201cunprecedented defiance\u201d of the court\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n
In Thursday\u2019s brief, an unsigned 7-2 opinion, the majority indicated that the court\u2019s \u201cJune 23 order stayed the April 18 preliminary injunction in full. The May 21 remedial order cannot now be used to enforce an injunction that our stay rendered unenforceable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two of the Supreme Court\u2019s liberals, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented, while the third liberal, Justice Elena Kagan, sided with the court\u2019s conservative majority.<\/p>\n
She noted that she had previously disagreed with the Supreme Court\u2019s original ruling permitting third-country removals to proceed. \u201cBut a majority of this court saw things differently, and I do not see how a district court can compel compliance with an order that this court has stayed,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
The eight illegal immigrants include individuals from Cuba, Vietnam, and Laos, reports noted.<\/p>\n
Sotomayor\u2019s dissent contended that \u201c[w]hat the Government wants to do, concretely, is send the eight noncitizens it illegally removed from the United States from Djibouti to South Sudan, where they will be turned over to the local authorities without regard for the likelihood that they will face torture or death.\u201d<\/p>\n
She argued that the court should not have considered the government\u2019s request at all, as the government should have made its arguments in the lower courts first. Moreover, she suggested that the Supreme Court\u2019s \u201ccontinued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing to properly divine their import, is indefensible.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you thought one-word tweets from Donald Trump couldn\u2019t get any stranger, think again. Over the weekend, President Trump dropped yet another cryptic post on social media: simply \u201cBela.\u201d That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n