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JUST IN: Supreme Court Delivers Another Major Victory For Trump

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed down another major immigration ruling that will allow the Trump Administration to accelerate mass deportation operations.

In a 7-2 ruling, the high court ruled in favor of the Trump Administration in a legal fight over deporting illegal aliens to third countries, or countries that are not their own. The new order clarifies the court’s June 23 ruling that addressed the issue of third country deportations.

Justice Elena Kagan joined the court’s six conservatives in the majority, while liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

The Supreme Court said in the unsigned order that its earlier ruling applied to eight men who are currently being held in a U.S. facility in Djibouti, meaning the judge’s later decision was “unenforceable.” U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy had continued to assert that the May deportation flight violated his injunction, arguing that it was still in “full force.”

“The May 21 remedial order cannot now be used to enforce an injunction that our stay rendered unenforceable,” the Supreme Court’s clarifying order reads, confirming that all of Murphy’s rulings are effectively void.

While Justice Kagan sided with her fellow liberals in the previous decision, she explained that she agreed with the Trump Administration this time around in the unsigned order. “But a majority of this Court saw things differently, and I do not see how a district court can compel compliance with an order that this Court has stayed,” Kagan wrote.

Federal authorities have kept the eight illegal aliens, all of whom have serious criminal records, on a military base in Djibouti ever since Murphy intervened in May.

“The Supreme Court’s order rewards the government for violating the preliminary injunction in this case and for delaying provision of the due process protections that the district court ordered, which included a determination on whether they had a reasonable fear of being persecuted or tortured there. All eight have such a fear,” the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, which represents the illegal aliens, said in a statement.

The latest ruling comes just under a week after the Trump Administration notched its most significant legal victory of the president’s second term, when the high court significantly curtailed the ability of federal district judges to issue nationwide injunctions against the president’s policies and orders.

Nationwide injunctions are sweeping orders issued by district courts to block executive actions across the country. The Supreme Court found in its decision Friday that these orders exceed the equitable authority Congress has granted to federal courts.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion, while liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.