Overview

• The Supreme Court’s 6–3 unsigned order paused a Boston judge’s injunction; it allows the administration to proceed with deporting criminal noncitizens to third countries without pre-removal hearings.
• Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson warned the ruling could expose thousands of migrants to torture or death in unstable nations such as South Sudan and Libya.
• The Justice Department accused Judge Brian Murphy of “unprecedented defiance” for enforcing his May 21 order; the ruling has kept eight migrants at a U.S. military base in Djibouti pending safety reviews.
• The administration contends that third-country removals are essential for swiftly expelling migrants convicted of serious crimes whose home governments refuse to readmit them.
• Attorneys for the migrants plan to press their challenge in lower courts as appeals proceed on whether due process guarantees extend to third-country deportations.