Federal judge says SCOTUS decision on 3rd-country deportations doesn't affect his original ruling
Source: Law & Crime
Jun 24th, 2025, 10:49 am Updated Jun 24th, 2025, 12:21 pm
A federal judge's order barring eight men from being deported to South Sudan "remains in full force and effect," he said on Monday, despite the Supreme Court staying his nationwide preliminary injunction blocking third-country deportations.
While U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy's April injunction — which kept people deemed illegal immigrants from being deported to countries with which they have no official ties — has been lifted at large, Murphy contends that he may still rule on individual cases, such as the men stuck in Djibouti who were set to be sent to South Sudan, a country entrenched in a civil war. And it appears that the high court's lack of explanation in its Monday stay opened the door for Murphy to take such an action.
Murphy's May 21 order regarding the eight deportees "remains in full force and effect, notwithstanding today's stay of the Preliminary Injunction," the judge, a Boston-based Joe Biden appointee, wrote in a docket-only order on Tuesday. He was responding to an emergency motion filed by the eight men in the wake of the high court's ruling, finding the motion "unnecessary" as, in his eyes, they are already protected under his previous ruling uninfluenced by the Supreme Court's stay.
He pointed to the scathing dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor. "[T]he District Court's remedial orders [were] not properly before [the Supreme] Court because the Government has not appealed them, nor sought a stay pending a forthcoming appeal," he quoted from her writing, joined by the court's two other liberal justices, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Full headline: 'Remains in full force': Federal judge says SCOTUS decision on 3rd-country deportations doesn't affect his original ruling keeping men from South Sudan
Link to EMERGENCY MOTION (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25982149-south-sudan-emergency-motion/
Link to EMERGENCY MOTION (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25982149/south-sudan-emergency-motion.pdf
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