Posted on 06/24/2025 7:45:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
A federal judge blocked deportations for eight migrants Monday night, appearing to sidestep a Supreme Court order issued just hours before.
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration earlier on Monday to move forward with quickly deporting illegal migrants to countries not specified in their removal orders. The ruling pausing an injunction issued by Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, which required the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to give migrants notice and allow them to raise concerns about potential threats of torture before deporting them to a “third country.”
However, Murphy issued an order Monday night blocking immediate removal of eight migrants currently held at a U.S. naval base in Djibouti to South Sudan.
Murphy wrote that an earlier May 21 order issued after finding the administration violated his preliminary injunction was still in effect, citing Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion.
Sotomayor suggested Murphy’s “remedial orders are not properly before this Court because the Government has not appealed them, nor sought a stay pending a forthcoming appeal.”
“All eight individuals—none of whom have final removal orders to South Sudan—are being deprived of basic procedural rights and access to protection that Congress and the Constitution require,” the migrants told Murphy in their Monday night filing. “Absent injunctive relief, these class members face imminent risk of deportation to a volatile country where they likely will face indefinite detention and other forms of torture.”
🚨BREAKING: Stephen Miller says to “expect fireworks” tomorrow after a judge openly admitted to defying a SCOTUS ruling!
“Sean, in a little bit of breaking news is that the District Court Judge in Boston has said he’s gonna defy the Supreme Court’s ruling, so expect fireworks… pic.twitter.com/doDh4yx6so
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) June 24, 2025
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said on Fox News Monday night to “expect fireworks tomorrow we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court.”
“A Boston judge halted the deportation of illegal aliens convicted of child rape and murder,” Miller wrote on X. “Finally, the Supreme Court stepped in and halted the judge’s lawless edict. Late last night the Boston judge claimed authority to overrule the Supreme Court and defied the Court’s order.”
In her dissent joined by justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan, Sotomayor wrote that she “cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.”
“Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention it plainly requires, this Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied,” Sotomayor wrote.
A dissenting opinion is just that — an opinion. It’s not the order of the court.
The twirp Biden judge having a hissy fit.
“White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said on Fox News Monday night to “expect fireworks tomorrow we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court.”
If you see anything about this please let me know....I sure hope Stephen Miller can back up what he’s saying.
In the meantime they need to just ignore these activist judges.....the SCOTUS has spoken.....end of story.
Let’s just remove him from the bench then.
so sick of these weasely mealy mouthed urinalist critters...
“appears” , “ skirts “ ?
so sick of these weasely mealy mouthed urinalist critters...
A threat of verbal “fireworks” is meaningless. Arrest the judge for abuse of authority and have him do a perp walk.
Arrest him for obstruction of justice and abetting immigration law dodging?
...citing Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion.
WOW! Just wow. Why not cite Jose Padilla, Maxine Waters or AOC,
My idea of fireworks regarding the Masshole just us judge may differ from Stephen Miller, but I’m willing to wait and see..
remove him from the bench then remove his law license
the Trump Admin has been very unimpressive with there extreme deference to district judges’ lawless edicts. The SCOTUS has spoken. Simply send the 8 criminals to Sudan, and issue no further communication or court appearances to this judge. What can he do? Nothing. What is Trump afraid of?
Not a real judge to begin with.
Every district court like this
should be investigated for treason,
and helped further, or SHUT DOWN (as his)
with the traitor taken to GITMO for Tribunal.
Plenty of Congress members would jump at the chance to impeach him.
John Roberts has allowed lower courts to run amuck.
Agree. His legal team are a bunch of wusses and losers.
Obama and Byin appointed judges are all un-American socialist wokeists.
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