The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 on Monday to allow the Trump administration to resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their own with limited notice, halting a lower court order that had temporarily blocked the policy.
The justices split along ideological lines, with the conservative majority granting the administration’s request to stay an April ruling by a federal judge in Boston. The majority offered no explanation for the decision.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a sharp dissent, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, criticizing both the administration and the Court’s intervention:
“In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution,” Sotomayor wrote. “In this case, the Government took the opposite approach.” She added, “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.”
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