NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge's effort to protect 8 men from being expelled--without due process--to South Sudan [View all]
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NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a1153_2co3.pdf
The eight men in this case are currently shackled in a shipping container (their makeshift jail) in Djibouti under U.S. custody. The Supreme Court’s decision means the government can expel them to South Sudan, a country in which they have never stepped foot, where they may well be tortured to death.
Jackson joins Sotomayor’s dissent; Kagan does not. She says today’s order is a proper application of an earlier decision allowing expulsions to third countries without due process (from which she dissented). This split between the liberals is becoming familiar.
NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-07-03T20:39:17.934Z
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible†decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.†www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Justice Sotomayor: "Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."
— Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) 2025-07-03T20:51:58.666Z
Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor & Jackson (and a rare concurrence from Justice Kagan), #SCOTUS "clarifies" that its 6/23 ruling staying a district court's injunction against third-country removals *also* applies to the district court's later order requiring a remedy for those already removed:
— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-07-03T20:30:54.775Z
Justice Sotomayor, dissenting from #SCOTUS's "clarification" of its unexplained June 23 stay in the D.V.D. case:
— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-07-03T20:35:05.188Z
"The Court’s continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible."
"Today’s order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."
— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-07-03T20:35:54.438Z
Sotomayor: “Today’s order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial.â€
— Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) 2025-07-03T20:48:45.597Z
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