The U.S. Supreme Court this week allowed the Trump administration to resume deporting noncitizens to countries with which they have no ties.
Why did the Supreme Court do it? Unfortunately, we don't know why because the Court declined to say. The ruling came in the form of an unsigned emergency order that offered zero explanation. But Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, did file a dissent. And that dissent painted an extremely unflattering picture of what the other six justices were up to.
The case is known as Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D. It arose when the Trump administration sought to deport a group of men—all immigrants who have been convicted of crimes—to South Sudan and other nations where the immigrants have no connections, a process known as "third country removal."
