U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media after signing executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Murphy ruled that migrants must remain in U.S. custody until they can have the opportunity to conduct a "reasonable fear interview," or the chance to explain to U.S. officials any fear of persecution or torture should they be released into the country.
Murphy stressed his order does not bar Trump "from executing removal orders to third countries." Instead, he emphasized in an earlier order, "it simply requires" the government "to comply with the law when carrying" out such removals under the U.S. Constitution and the Trump administration's wave of eleventh-hour removals and deportations.
In appealing the case to the Supreme Court, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that Judge Murphy's ruling had blocked them from removing "some of the worst of the worst illegal aliens," including a class of migrants sent to South Sudan earlier this year without due process or notice.
He reiterated in a separate order that the migrants remain in U.S. custody at a military base in Djibouti until each of them could be given a "reasonable fear interview," or a chance to explain to U.S. officials any fear of persecution or torture, should they be released into South Sudanese custody.
US JUDGE ACCUSES TRUMP ADMIN OF ‘MANUFACTURING CHAOS’ IN SOUTH SUDAN DEPORTATIONS, ESCALATING FEUD
The Supreme Court building is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in this 2024 photo. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
The Supreme Court update comes after a flurry of lower court challenges aimed at blocking Trump’s immigration crackdown in his second White House term.
U.S. judges have repeatedly ruled that the Trump administration has violated due process by failing to notify the migrants of their imminent removals, or afford them any opportunity to challenge their deportations in court – a view reiterated, albeit narrowly, by the Supreme Court four separate times since Trump took office.
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White House officials, meanwhile, have blasted so-called "activist" judges as attempting to enact a political agenda, and have repeatedly rejected the notion that illegal immigrants are not entitled to due process.
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Breanne Deppisch is a national politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the Trump administration, with a focus on the Justice Department, FBI, and other national news.
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