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.
I understand the executive branch can’t do anything to him, but the Supreme Court can. They have been dithering on reining in the judges, but I don’t see how they can ignore a district judge violating a ruling they just made.
He had lots of help.........
If the Supreme Court lets him get away with this, then there are no laws in this country.
Seems simple to me: Just ignore the ruling/order/wet dream/whatever-the-hell-it-is as it is illegal. Ignore it and this judge as if neither exist.
Like you said, the supreme Court HAS to act. This is a direct challenge to their ruling from a lower court literally hours after they made it.
I remember when he said his duty was to preserve the integrity of the court.
What a bullchitter he was. He has done the exact opposite.
It’d be a good strategy to let ICE follow the judge’s decision for a while so the public aware of the decision and criticize him, then move to deport them according to SCOTUS decision
They should immediately go ack to the Supreme Court to have the judge removed from the case and remand the case to another District judge who will adhere to the SC ruling. Also file a complaint with the federal commission on judicial conduct to have him disciplined
SCOTUS needs to issue a contempt of court order to the DOJ for federal marshals to take FORAC (For Action).
John Roberts has ruined the ENTIRE Court system..............
Yes he as. He could end this outrage and he doesn’t. Deep State owned.
So far, I have not heard of this judge’s ruling being broadcast on the MSM. They know people would be enraged by his behavior..........
“Will no one rid me of this troublesome judge?”
Henry II that you?................
Nah. I’m ‘enery the Eighth I am. ‘enery the Eighth I am, I am.
This judge just violated a Supreme court ruling. Let’s see what happens now.”
Nothing, that is what happens now.
If the Supremes ignore this, then President Trump can ignore them also.
if Trump is not willing to ignore this lower court hack he is certainly not going to ignore the SC.
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