WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on June 23 agreed to pause a judge's order requiring migrants be given the chance to contest their removal to countries other than their own, a win for the Trump administration's efforts to rapidly deport them.
The court’s three liberal justices – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – dissented.
Sotomayor wrote that her colleagues are “rewarding lawlessness.”
“Apparently, the Court finds the idea that thousands will suffer violence in farflung locales more palatable than the remote possibility that a District Court exceeded its remedial powers when it ordered the Government to provide notice and process to which the plaintiffs are constitutionally and statutorily entitled,” she wrote in a dissent joined by Kagan and Jackson. “That use of discretion is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable.”
The majority did not provide an explanation for their decision, which is common in emergency appeals.
