Djibouti, Trump administration and Judge Brian
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The Justice Department argued that a federal judge forced the Trump admin to detain migrants in Djibouti, but the timeline tells a different story.
Trump allies and experts say a federal judge overstepped by halting third-country deportations, setting up a legal clash over due process and executive power.
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An appeal that landed at the Supreme Court Tuesday could test the justices’ emerging concern about President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation policies and whether he is willing to defy judicial orders.
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking legal clearance to resume deporting migrants to third countries like South Sudan, which the State Department has warned is dangerous and unstable.
A judge ordered the Trump administration to maintain custody of the migrants, whose lawyers say they were on a flight bound for violence-plagued South Sudan.
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Press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed a deportation flight linked to South Sudan on a judge who ruled that the administration had violated a court order.
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to approve speedy deportations. Experts say the policy may be trying to shape the behavior of immigrants through fear.
This case addresses the government’s ability to remove some of the worst of the worst illegal immigrants,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the emergency appeal to the high court.
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