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https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/trump-administration-judge- supreme-court-migrant?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday
to allow it to immediately deport a group of migrants currently being held
on a US military base in Djibouti to South Sudan, saying the judge
handling the case defied the high court.

The unusual motion came hours after a divided Supreme Court allowed the administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their homeland, including places like South Sudan, with minimal notice. Later
Monday, a district court judge in Massachusetts ruled that the order
didn’t apply to the specific migrants in Djibouti.

Describing the lower court’s order as “untenable,” the Trump
administration accused US District Judge Brian Murphy of being in
“defiance” of the Supreme Court’s order and suggested in its brief on
Tuesday that the justices remove him from the case.

“The district court’s ruling of last night is indefensible,” the
Department of Justice told the Supreme Court.

“The district court’s ruling of last night is a lawless act of defiance
that, once again, disrupts sensitive diplomatic relations and slams the
brakes on the executive’s lawful efforts to effectuate third-country
removals,” the administration said.

As is often the case on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, the order
Monday afternoon provided little detail about the implications of the
decision. The Trump administration had asked the justices to put on hold
an order from Murphy, which found that the government’s efforts to deport migrants to third-party countries without additional due process “unquestionably” violated constitutional protections.

The Supreme Court granted that request, allowing the administration to
continue those removals to third countries broadly while the litigation continues.

But later Monday, Murphy ruled that the Supreme Court’s order didn’t
affect a group of immigrants being detained by the US at a military base
in Djibouti – a group that has become a focal point in the fight over the removal policy. The migrants, including some from Cuba, Vietnam and Laos,
were being held in a converted Conex shipping container.

Murphy said the government must continue to assess claims they make about
fear of being tortured before removing them to South Sudan. He had
mandated those assessments in a separate order on May 21 that the Trump administration did not appeal.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department also suggested the Supreme Court “may consider ordering that the case be reassigned to a different district
judge.”

Administration attorneys urged the justices to “clarify” that its order
Monday also covers Murphy’s separate May 21 order involving the migrants
in Djibouti. If the Supreme Court agreed to do so, that would mean those migrants could be removed to South Sudan.

Responding to the Trump administration, the National Immigrant Litigation Alliance said Tuesday that Murphy had made a “reasonable interpretation”
of the Supreme Court’s order.

“The lives and safety of eight members of the nationally certified class
in this case are at imminent risk,” the groups told the Supreme Court.

The groups said that the administration had delayed compliance with
Murphy’s order since May 21 and that the government “did not provide the
eight class members with any means to access their lawyers until after two weeks following their arrival in Djibouti.”

Humanitarian groups describe the situation in South Sudan as dire. The
United Nations recently warned about food insecurity in the country, which
is also facing political instability and escalating violence.

“There is currently no injunction in place barring the removal of the
criminal aliens in Djibouti,” the Trump administration told the Supreme
Court in its motion Tuesday. The district court’s ruling, it said, “is obviously wrong; and in turn, following this court’s stay, there is no
longer any injunction limiting the government’s conduct here.”

In a sharply worded dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday slammed the Trump administration’s handling of immigration matters and accused her colleagues of “rewarding lawlessness” by backing its emergency appeal. The court’s two other liberals – Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown
Jackson – joined that dissent.

This story has been updated with additional developments.


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