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JUST IN: Supreme Court Delivers Victory For Trump In 6-3 Ruling

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with the Trump Administration in a 6-3 decision that will have immediate impact on the president’s deportation strategies.

In a ruling that broke down along the panel’s ideological boundaries, the high court granted the Trump Administration’s request to stay a lower court injunction blocking them from deporting individuals to third countries without prior notice. The near-term win will allow for the deportation of criminal illegal aliens to countries like El Salvador, Libya and South Sudan.

The court’s conservative justices ruled 6-3 in favor of the administration, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting. “Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to man­age this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention it plainly requires, this Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeat­edly defied,” Justice Sotomayor said.

At issue was a group of illegal aliens who had challenged their removals to third countries, or those that were not their country of origin. Lawyers for the migrants had urged the Supreme Court to leave a ruling from a ruling in place from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who ordered the administration to halt deportations of all illegal aliens slated for deportation to a country not “explicitly” named in their removal orders, Fox News reported.

The Boston-based federal judge ruled that affected aliens must remain in U.S. custody until they have the opportunity to conduct a “reasonable fear interview,” which allows them to lay out fears of torture or prosecution should they be returned.

When appealing the case before the high court, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that Murphy’s ruling had prevented the federal government from removing “some of the worst of the worst illegal aliens.” He further stressed that the individuals in question remained in custody on a U.S. base in Djibouti until given the chance to conduct a reasonable fear interview.

The latest ruling comes as U.S. District Judges have filed a record number of injunctions against Trump Administration immigration actions since the president returned to the White House earlier this year. On Sunday, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student who has expressed support for foreign jihadist organizations, from federal immigration custody.

The Trump Administration has also racked up a number of Supreme Court victories and continues to appeal others, including the Khalil case, to the high court. Just last month, the Supreme Court handed down a 7-2 ruling that upheld the president’s ability to remove temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua and other South American and African nations.

President Trump previously moved to end the Biden-directed humanitarian parole programs as part of an executive order he signed on January 20, 2025. The Department of Homeland Security then took action to terminate them all in March, which cut short the two-year parole grants.