White House asks supreme court to block challenges to deportations to South Sudan

From the course of conduct, it is hard to come to any conclusion other than that defendants [the Trump administration] invite a lack of clarity as a means of evasion,

the Boston-based Murphy wrote in his 17-page order

Evidence now in the record (although not all before us on April 18) suggests that the Government had in fact taken steps on the afternoon of April 18 toward removing detainees under the AEA – including transporting them from their detention facility to an airport and later returning them to the facility,

the justices said in an unsigned opinion joined by conservatives and liberals

Brett Kavanaughjustice

I want to ask one thing about something in your brief,

Justice Brett Kavanaugh said to Sauer

Our general practice is to respect those precedents, but there are circumstances when it is not a categorial practice,

Sauer answered

The Government’s conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law,

the liberal justices wrote

Amy Coney Barrettjustice

Did I understand you correctly to tell Justice (Elena) Kagan, ... that the government wanted to reserve its right to maybe not follow a Second Circuit precedent, say, in New York because you might disagree with the opinion?”

Barrett began

Donald Trumppresident

Let’s just assume you’re dead wrong,

about the validity of Trump ... Kagan told Sauer

Had the detainees been removed from the United States to the custody of a foreign sovereign on April 19, the Government may have argued, as it has previously argued, that no U.S. court had jurisdiction to order relief.”

Referring to the court majority’s April 19 middle-of-the-night order preventing those deportations, the justices added

You would respect the opinions and judgment of the Supreme Court, ... You’re not hedging at all with respect to the precedent of this court?”

she asked

To be clear, the Court recognizes that the class members at issue here have criminal histories,

Murphy added

We can’t have judges deciding the foreign policy of the country. That is not in their purview. It’s not in the Constitution,

Green said

Judge Brian Murphy is coming as close as I can imagine to a judge actually violating the law in his official capacity,

Shipley said

Having slammed on the brakes while these aliens were literally mid-flight—thus forcing the government to detain them at a military base in Djibouti not designed or equipped to hold such criminals—the court then retroactively ‘clarified’ its injunction,

Sauer wrote

Section 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act specifically permits the Department of Homeland Security to remove an alien to a third country if their home country or last residence won’t take them,

said Art Arthur, a former immigration judge and fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies

Since that hearing, merely five days ago, Defendants have changed their tune,

Murphy wrote

The INA is clear that district courts lack authority to hear habeas efforts to execute removal,

he said

Donald Trumppresident

The Judges are absolutely out of control, they’re hurting our Country, and they know nothing about particular situations, or what they are doing – And this must change, IMMEDIATELY! Hopefully, the Supreme Court of the United States will put an END to the quagmire that has been caused by the Radical Left,

Trump wrote in a post shared to his Truth Social platform

As a result, criminal aliens are often allowed to stay in the United States for years on end, victimizing law-abiding Americans in the meantime,

he wrote

The United States is facing a crisis of illegal immigration, in no small part because many aliens most deserving of removal are often the hardest to remove,

Mr. Sauer wrote

It typically takes minutes, not weeks, for an alien to express a fear of being tortured in a country,

Mr. Sauer wrote