A federal judge issued an order late Monday night claiming an earlier ruling from the Supreme Court that permitted deportations to continue is irrelevant.
Six months after Judge Brian E. Murphy was nominated by then-President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate during the last few weeks of Democrats’ control, he issued an order stating “The Court’s May 21, 2025 Order on Remedy remains in full force and effect, notwithstanding today’s stay of the Preliminary Injunction. The District Court’s remedial orders [were] not properly before the [Supreme] Court because the Government has not appealed them, or sought a stay pending a forthcoming appeal.”
The rogue ruling came just hours after the Supreme Court agreed 6-3 that the Trump administration, at least temporarily, can deport illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes to “third countries.” Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan dissented. The decision means the administration could resume the deportations of illegal aliens to countries other than their native land. The Trump administration previously had to permit each violent illegal alien to challenge the deportation under a prior ruling Murphy issued.
The administration sought a stay on Murphy’s order that instructed the administration “to keep in U.S. custody all migrants slated for deportation to a country not ‘explicitly’ named in their removal orders — known as a third-country deportation,” as noted by Fox News.
As described by Politico, after the Supreme Court ruling dropped, illegal aliens held in Djibouti “filed a motion with Murphy asking him to continue to block their deportation to South Sudan and to now require that the men be brought back to the U.S.” Murphy denied the request for a new order because, as stated above, such an order would be “unnecessary” because he claims his previous ruling is not impacted by the Supreme Court’s new ruling.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said on Fox News Monday night to expect “fireworks” on Tuesday, hinting the Trump administration would hold Murphy accountable for flouting the Supreme Court.
“The district court judge in Boston has said he’s going to defy the Supreme Court’s ruling, so expect fireworks tomorrow when we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court,” Miller said.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
