Happy Independence Day!
Just hours after the Supreme Court issued a ruling, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from transferring the 8 illegal aliens stuck in Djibouti to South Sudan.
Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee, held an emergency hearing before a flight scheduled for 7 pm departed Djibouti to transfer the illegals to South Sudan.
BREAKING: A DOJ lawyer told Moss at a Friday hearing that a flight is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET today to take the men to South Sudan. The DOJ lawyer also said that an effort to seek relief from the DC Circuit and SCOTUS today is possible if Moss keeps the stay in place—and, hence,… https://t.co/67WbMueJP0
— Chris “Law Dork” Geidner (@chrisgeidner) July 4, 2025
Judge Moss punted the case to a district court in Massachusetts and gave the plaintiffs’ attorneys one hour to file their emergency claim.
HAPPENING NOW: Emergency proceedings are underway related to the potential deportation of 8 men to South Sudan before Judge Randy Moss in Washington.
The men are teed up to be transfered at 7pm tonight. But Moss is sending the case to MA, where he says it should be handled.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 4, 2025
Judge Moss in DC (Obama) formally transferred the case the case to Judge Murphy (Biden) in Massachusetts.
MOSS has formally transfered the case to Judge Murphy’s court. The question is if he can take it up and consider emergency relief in time for the deportation tonight — and if he will go there, considering the Supreme Court’s rebuke on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/fOMHxBPPac
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 4, 2025
The Trump DOJ said they would immediately appeal to the Supreme Court.
Moss granted a 1 hour stay to give lawyers for the men a chance to file their emergency claim in Massachusetts.
Lawyer for Trump administration says they will appeal to the Supreme Court immediatelty.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 4, 2025
The US Supreme Court 7-2 on Thursday granted the Trump Administration’s request to lift a Biden judge’s order blocking the deportation of the 8 illegals currently stuck in Djibouti.
Liberal Justice Elena Kagan joined the conservative justices and issued a concurring opinion.
However, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor fumed in her dissenting opinion. Justice Jackson joined Sotomayor.
“For all that, moreover, the majority does not actually clarify its prior decision. The majority says it expects “that the District Court will now conform its order to our previous stay,” ante, at 2, but it refuses to explain what such conformity would involve. As a result, today’s order not only excuses (once again) the Government’s undisguised con-tempt for the Judiciary; it also leaves the District Court without any guidance about how this litigation should proceed. The District Court cannot adjudicate plaintiffs’ serious due process claims on their merits without ensuring, byway of injunctive relief, its jurisdiction over the case. Yet this Court refuses to explain what injunctive relief, if any, it believes the District Court can issue,” Sotomayor wrote in her dissent.
In May, US District Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, said the Trump Administration violated his court order to provide the aliens with “meaningful” due process since they were being sent to “third-party” countries.
The US government doesn’t even have a detention facility in Djibouti, so 11 ICE agents are detaining the aliens in a conference room in a converted Conex shipping container on the US Naval base in Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti.
DEVELOPING…
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