Overview

• The unsigned July 3 order clarifies that the court’s June 23 stay applies to Judge Brian Murphy’s May 21 remedial order, voiding all lower-court restraints on the South Sudan deportation plan.
• The decision restores the administration’s authority to complete a May flight carrying eight men convicted of serious U.S. crimes who were diverted to a U.S. base in Djibouti.
• Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, warning that the migrants face risks of imprisonment, torture or death in a country under a Level 4 U.S. travel advisory.
• Advocates for the migrants have vowed to pursue further challenges, arguing that due process and non-refoulement obligations still require notice and fear-of-torture hearings.
• The case sharpens a broader clash over executive power and human rights protections in the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy.