Judge pleads with Trump administration for 'reason over rhetoric' in deportation case [View all]
Source: Politico
05/27/2025 07:05 AM EDT
A federal judge said the Trump administration is falsely blaming him for a crisis of its own making: the rushed deportation of seven men to South Sudan in violation of court orders and constitutional due process. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy said Monday the hurried deportations were an overt violation of orders he put in place weeks ago, which required the administration to provide “meaningful” notice before deporting people to countries where they could face torture or death.
Even after the violation, Murphy said he exercised restraint by not forcing the administration to bring the seven convicted violent criminals back to the United States. Rather, the Boston-based Biden appointee agreed to a request from the Trump administration: Instead of requiring the men be brought back to the U.S., he allowed them to remain in U.S. custody overseas while giving them a chance to raise fear of potential violence and danger in South Sudan.
They’re currently being held on a U.S. military base in Djibouti, a small country on the nearby Horn of Africa.
“It continues to be the court’s hope that reason can get the better of rhetoric,” Murphy wrote in his withering Monday night order rejecting the Trump administration’s demand that he reconsider or delay the effect of his ruling. “The orders put in place here are sensible and conservative.”
It’s Murphy’s latest salvo after President Donald Trump and his top allies attempted to turn the judge into a poster child for their campaign of hostility toward judges who rule against their immigration priorities.
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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.135.0.pdf
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