In a major legal victory for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court on Thursday handed down a 7-2 ruling lifting a lower court’s blockade against deporting eight illegal immigrants who have been stuck for months in Djibouti under precarious conditions.
The high court’s decision represents a significant rebuke to a Biden-appointed district judge whose order had effectively frozen the government’s efforts to remove these foreign nationals. Surprisingly, liberal Justice Elena Kagan sided with the conservative justices and even issued a separate concurring opinion.
Yet the ruling sparked outrage from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who issued a fiery dissent joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Sotomayor ripped into the majority, accusing them of leaving the lower courts “without any guidance about how this litigation should proceed.”
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