As the conservative wing of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with the Trump administration and stayed a district court’s preliminary injunction pending appeal, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor sharply criticized the majority for “clos[ing] its eyes” and “rewarding lawlessness” by permitting the government to resume so-called “third-country” deportations.
The court needed five justices to grant the stay, and the nine-member court accomplished that without the help of the dissenting Sotomayor and Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
As recently as early June, immigration lawyers opposing the Trump administration’s stay application urged the high court not to lose sight of the government’s “own choices — to violate the district court’s orders” by moving to “deport two groups of class members to Libya and South Sudan” even after U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued the injunction in April.
Really getting sick of “so-and-so SLAMS so-and-so.” Can we get a new headline verb please?
That being said. I agree with Sotomayor.
did they SLAM in the back of her dragula?
The Trump administration is regularly ignoring court procedure and orders from lower courts. If this was a legitimate right-leaning Supreme Court, they’d repeatedly say “We’ll take this up when you follow the rules.” Instead, they’re just telling the Trump administration they’ll be covered when they ignore the law. If that’s not an illegitimate Supreme Court, then what is?