SCOTUS disappoints. Again.
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I mean it's a stay and could go the other way eventually, but for the people who could be deported tomorrow it could be a death sentence.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a lower court order that required people set to be deported to countries other than their own to be allowed to challenge their deportation orders.
The order focused on a flight carrying several men from various countries — including Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba and Mexico — which was initially headed to South Sudan but ended up in the East African country of Djibouti in order to give the men time to dispute their final destination. The U.S. government says the men are violent criminals, convicted of crimes including murder, sexual assault, kidnapping and robbery, and said they don't deserve to stay in the U.S.
But Judge Brian Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts last month said people must still get a so-called "credible fear" interview in their native language to be able to dispute being sent to a country they're not originally from. He said people must get at least 15 days to challenge their deportations.
Monday's unsigned order puts Murphy's ruling on hold while the legal process continues in the lower courts. The court's three liberals — Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — dissented.
Camp Lemonnier uses stacks and rows of "Containerized Living Units,” or CLUs, which the military likens to shipping containers, to house thousands of personnel at the U.S. base in Djibouti. A group of migrants is being held in a converted shipping container, according to court filings.
"In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution," the dissenters wrote. "In this case, the Government took the opposite approach."
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g-s1-71529/supreme-court-south-sudan-deportation
