Posted on 07/25/2026 6:29:03 PM PDT by lowbridge
A Biden-appointed federal judge on Friday became the second jurist in Massachusetts to block the Trump administration's effort to end temporary protected status for migrant groups, fueling a growing clash over whether lower courts are ignoring a recent Supreme Court ruling that narrowed their authority over such decisions.
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy of the District of Massachusetts issued an administrative stay in African Communities Together v. Mullin, temporarily preserving TPS protections for Ethiopian nationals while the court considers whether plaintiffs may pursue constitutional claims in light of the Supreme Court's June ruling.
In a 6-3 decision in Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court significantly narrowed lower courts' authority to block DHS decisions designating or terminating TPS.
Murphy's ruling drew a swift response from DHS General Counsel James Percival, who accused him of "mutiny" against the Supreme Court and revived criticism of the judge's May 2025 order halting a deportation flight to South Sudan.
DHS blamed Murphy for leaving ICE officers stranded at a U.S. military base in Djibouti, where officials said they faced malaria exposure and the threat of rocket attacks from terrorist groups in neighboring Yemen.
"Remember when that district judge rerouted a plane with child rapists headed for South Sudan? The judge made ICE land in Djibouti to face Malaria and terrorist rocket attacks from Yemen," Percival wrote on X. "Fun fact: it was the very same Judge Brian Murphy who entered a lawless TPS order today!"
Murphy's order Friday comes amid a months-long legal fight over the Trump administration's effort to end Ethiopia's TPS designation.
The litigation began after then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem determined in December 2025 that conditions in Ethiopia no longer justified Temporary Protected Status and announced the designation would terminate.
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So SCOTUS is no longer the highest court in the land?
More importantly, when is something going to be done about this shit besides politicians and pundits bitching on the Internet?
Justice Brian has had his bray...
Someone should explain to Faux News is the Supreme Court already ruled they can be deported.
Lead, posts, rope. I’m not kidding.
Because too many ‘citizens’ vote in compromised creeps as their congresscritters, who are supposed to clean pond scum like this judge off the bench.
The Supreme Court rules; now is the time for Trump to ignore the tin horn Biden judge and move right along with the deportations.
When will the just ignore the judges and let the SCOTUS handle it!
The judge is wrong. The problem is by the time that is resolved who knows where the subjects of these deportation orders will be?
Just ignore the lower courts. They’re ignoring the SCOTUS, so there is no need to respect their rulings.
Shouldn’t we start with CNN if we are deporting news stations?
The supremes have ruled, ignore the order.
CC
That evil ruling by this Federal judge sounds like INSURRECTION! Put him in prison.
read what the supreme court of Hawaii had to say about the supreme court rulings, straight mutiny
LET THIS RED PUNK BE INFORCE IT!
I’m sure the Trump people will not ignore this judge.
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that TPS termination decisions are beyond judicial review, except in cases of constitutional claims.
That's the hook that Murphy is using this time to circumbent the SCOTUS ruling.
Murphy is allowing the plaintiffs time to rewrite their lawsuit to make a constitutional equal protection claim against the administration, citing President Trump's "sh*thole countries" remark, as well as some things that Kristi Noem had said (which I don't recall), in order to find some kind of racial animus as the basis for the decision.
The problem is that the Supreme Court has already ruled in prior cases that incidental race-adjacent comments cannot derail a decision if that decision was based on facts that are predominantly relevant to the case. In this cases, the end of warfare and economic strife in Ethiopia was the basis for ending Temporary Protection Status, so any incidental comments regarding race would not have altered the fundamental decision if this had been any other country from, say, Europe or Asia.
That's where this is likely headed, and SCOTUS will like close off this loophole based on the presumption of regularity, that is, that the decision was based on the regular carrying out of the duties of the office.
-PJ
Brian. Another Massachusetts Dipsh*t Court Skank suffering from a God complex. These dumbass “judgettes” were brainwashed and convinced that hey are God.
The Ethiopian baboons have begun their takeover of the U.S. Congress.
Put the judge on the plane with the Ethiopians... Problem solved.
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