SCOTUS Allows Trump Deport Migrants to 3rd-Countries

The conservative majority did not provide a rationale for their ruling but liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned a scathing 19-page dissent that was joined by fellow liberals Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution,” Sotomayor wrote. “In this case, the Government took the opposite approach.”

“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.”

In her dissent, Sotomayor argued the high court’s ruling had exposed “thousands to the risk of torture or death.”

“The government has made clear in word and deed that it feels itself unconstrained by law, free to deport anyone anywhere without notice or an opportunity to be heard,” she added.

Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin wrote in a X post that the ruling meant it was time to “[f]ire up the deportation planes.”

“The SCOTUS ruling is a victory for the safety and security of the American people,” she added. “The Biden Administration allowed millions of illegal aliens to flood our country, and, now, the Trump Administration can exercise its undisputed authority to remove these criminal illegal aliens and clean up this national security nightmare … DHS can now execute its lawful authority and remove illegal aliens to a country willing to accept them.”