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Awful Supreme Court Deportation Case [1]

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Date: 2025-06-23

More SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States ) 2025 Wrap Up Opinions - Part 4 June 23, 2025

Again, what have I repeatedly said about those who failed to vote in the 2024 presidential race? Elections have CONSEQUENCES. When millions of people, many of whom voted for Biden in 2020 stayed home, Demagogue/dictator wannabe Donald edged out Kamala Harris in the popular vote and easily took the required electoral vote to give him the White House, once again, in 2024. And as we all know, Trump could care less about how cruel he is to anyone in opposition to him or to helpless people that he deems his top scapegoats–foreigners currently facing deportation. In a 6-3 unsigned order along the usual liberal-conservative lines, the High Court, with three of Trump’s appointees in the majority, stayed a lower federal district court order. That order would have required several men from various countries other than their own to challenge these deportations by the U.S. Government to South Sudan, a very unstable and extremely poor country. These individuals came from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, and Mexico. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g-s1-71529/supreme-court-south-sudan-deportation

These individuals were initially given the right by Massachusetts Federal District CourtJudge Brian Murphy to get what is known as “credible fear” interviews in their native languages to dispute being sent to a country from which they are not originally from, South Sudan, where they fear torture or death. According to NPR (National Public Radio), Judge Murphy gave them 15 days to challenge the U.S. Government’s deportation decision. The High Court’s action allows the U.S. Government to put Judge Murphy’s ruling on hold as the legal process continues in the lower courts, which could go on for years, while these individuals, now in the East African country of Djibouti, can be flown to the African nation of South Sudan and face an unknown fate. The U.S. Government says that these men are violent criminals, convicted of crimes including murder, robbery, kidnapping, and sexual assault, and, therefore, don’t deserve to stay in the U.S. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g-s1-71529/supreme-court-south-sudan-deportation

While awaiting this ruling, according to NPR, several of these migrants have been living in a converted shipping container at a U.S. military base in Djibouti where they are facing high temperatures, are exposed to malaria, and are living near “burn pits” which send off throat-clogging smog from burning trash and human waste. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g-s1-71529/supreme-court-south-sudan-deportation

Lawyers from immigration rights groups say that the men sent to South Sudan only received notice of where they were going the night before their flight. These attorneys, as NPR noted, told SCOTUS that even criminals deserve meaningful notice and an opportunity to be heard before they are sent to a dangerous country where they could face a terrible fate. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g-s1-71529/supreme-court-south-sudan-deportation They also argued that Mexico had previously accepted its own citizens deported from the U.S. and aptly suggested that the Trump administration’s process of removing people to third countries is “intentionally punitive.” https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g-s1-71529/supreme-court-south-sudan-deportation

As dissenting Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Brown Jackson correctly stated, “In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach.” https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g-s1-71529/supreme-court-south-sudan-deportation

IMHO, and according to NPR as well, this unsigned SCOTUS order is the latest example of SCOTUS becoming the final arbiter in Donald’s efforts to accelerate deportations and minimize the process. Frankly, in this awful ruling, the High Court has become a “rubber stamp” in implementing Trump’s draconian policies.

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