On Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court issued a follow-up order in a closely-watched case involving the removal of illegal aliens to third countries. In a 7-2 ruling, the court granted the Trump administration’s motion to clarify and affirmed that its stay of the lower court’s April 18 injunction meant that the lower court could not then use its later, derivative orders to essentially continue enforcing the now-stayed injunction.
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Yes, 7-2 — Justice Elena Kagan concurred with Thursday’s ruling, despite the fact that she’d dissented from the court’s prior ruling granting the stay.
NEW: SCOTUS slaps down federal judge in Boston – green lighting Trump admin efforts to deport a group of illegal aliens with egregious criminal histories & final deportation orders going as far back as 1999 to a third party country – potentially South Sudan. Murderers on plane.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 3, 2025
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