Supreme Court granted President Trump’s emergency request to resume deporting migrants to countries
Supreme Court granted President Trump’s emergency request to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their homeland.
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for President Donald Trump‘s administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show harms they could face, handing him another victory in his aggressive pursuit of mass deportations.
The justices lifted a judicial order that required the government to give migrants set for deportation to so-called “third countries” a “meaningful opportunity” to tell officials they are at risk of torture at their new destination, while a legal challenge plays out.
Boston-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy had issued the order on April 18.
The brief order was unsigned and came with no reasoning, as is common when the court decides emergency requests.
In a sharply worded dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by the court’s two other liberal justices, criticized the majority’s decision, calling it a “gross abuse” of the court’s discretion.
“Apparently, the court finds the idea that thousands will suffer violence in farflung locales more palatable than the remote possibility that a district court exceeded its remedial powers when it ordered the government to provide notice and process to which the plaintiffs are constitutionally and statutorily entitled,” Sotomayor wrote.
“That use of discretion is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable.”
