The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to pause an order demanding President Donald Trump give illegal aliens a ten day deportation notice to third-party countries.
The order is stayed pending an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued a nationwide injunction stopping the Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens to countries they did not come from when the country refuses to take them back in.
The administration claimed it could deport the aliens to these third countries if the countries promise not to “persecute or torture” the people.
The majority did not explain their decision. The dissenting judges issued one of their long-winded opinions.
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