The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a legal victory on Monday, allowing it to continue deporting certain migrants to countries other than their own, without requiring extensive prior notice.
In a 6–3 ruling that split the Court along ideological lines, the justices overturned a decision issued in late April by a federal judge in Boston. That earlier ruling had temporarily blocked the administration’s efforts to quickly remove individuals under the revised deportation policy.
While the majority of justices did not elaborate on their decision, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a forceful dissent. She was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson in criticizing the move.
“In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution,” Sotomayor wrote. “In this case, the Government took the opposite approach.”
“This Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied. I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.”
{Matzav.com}