{"id":12613,"date":"2025-07-04T00:14:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12613"},"modified":"2025-07-04T00:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:14:33","slug":"supreme-court-says-administration-can-remove-8-migrants-being-held-in-djibouti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12613","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court says administration can remove 8 migrants being held in Djibouti"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration is not obligated to keep eight noncitizens in temporary confinement at a U.S. military facility in Djibouti<\/a> while a legal battle over their status plays out, clearing the way for their removal to South Sudan — a country with which the men have no ties.<\/p>\n

The immigrants in question, who were convicted of violent crimes, were given notices of removal from the U.S. to the East African country of South Sudan — but after U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy blocked the administration’s attempt to deport the group without giving them a sufficient chance to contest their removal, the group has been in legal limbo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an unexplained decision last week, the Supreme Court lifted Judge Murphy’s injunction<\/a>, allowing the deportation of migrants to third countries without additional due process requirements that Murphy had imposed .<\/p>\n

Subsequently, Judge Murphy said he believed specifically that the eight men in Djibouti — who sued to challenge their removal — remained protected from being sent to South Sudan under an earlier order he had issued.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration attacked Murphy as exhibiting “defiance” of the Supreme Court and asked for clarification<\/a>. The Thursday ruling from the high court granted the administration’s wish.<\/p>\n

The decision is another win for the Trump administration and its unprecedented effort to deport immigrants to countries with which they have no ties and where they may face mistreatment.<\/p>\n

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Supreme Court Police officers stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington, June 27, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In an unsigned opinion, the court explained that since it lifted judge-imposed due process requirements for third-country removals last month, the government can no longer be held to account for allegedly violating the requirements.<\/p>\n

“I do not see how a district court can compel compliance with an order that this Court has stayed,” wrote liberal Justice Elena Kagan in a short concurrence with the conservative justices.<\/p>\n

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented.<\/p>\n

“Today’s order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial,” Sotomayor wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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