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Sadik Hossain

‘This ruling is condoning lawlessness’: Supreme Court hands Trump disturbing new authority – the precedent this creates is chilling

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to deport eight men to South Sudan who have been held in a shipping container on a U.S. military base in Djibouti for six weeks. The decision came after a legal battle between the White House and a federal judge in Boston.

According to Politico, the court voted 7-2 to remove an order from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy that had stopped the deportations. This happened even though Murphy had earlier required the administration to give people being deported advance notice of where they were going and a chance to object if they felt they would be in danger.

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