最高法院保守派多数周一为特朗普政府的移民政策带来了重大胜利，为官员们恢复将移民驱逐到第三国扫清了道路，无需地区法院法官施加额外的正当程序要求。
美国高等法院没有解释这一决定，但它表示，如果政府最终在上诉中败诉，布莱恩·墨菲法官的任期将终止。诉讼正在进行，但预计需要数年时间才能完成。
该案件是由一群据说要前往南苏丹的被拘留者提起的，他们声称自己从未有机会提出对酷刑的恐惧。墨菲法官上个月发布了一项初步禁令，停止未来的任何驱逐，除非被拘留者被告知他们的目的地，至少有10天时间对他们的安全表示担忧，并有15天时间对移民官员的不利调查结果提出质疑。
最高法院周一的命令的实际影响是，恢复将数十名未经授权的移民快速驱逐到他们自己国家以外的国家。特朗普政府已经向萨尔瓦多、危地马拉、南苏丹和利比亚派出飞机。
索尼娅·索托马约尔大法官与埃琳娜·卡根法官和凯坦吉·布朗·杰克森法官发表了尖锐的异议，指责她的同事纵容政府在“生死攸关的问题上”的“无法无天”的行为
索托马约尔写道:“法院现在介入，批准政府紧急救济，解除其一再违抗的命令。”。"我不能如此粗暴地滥用法庭的公平裁量权。"
索托马约尔写道，“正当程序条款代表了‘我们的政府是法治政府，而不是人治政府，我们只有在遵守规则的情况下才会服从统治者的原则’”。"通过奖励违法行为，最高法院再次破坏了这一基本原则."
“显然，最高法院认为，成千上万的人将在遥远的地方遭受暴力，这种想法比一个地区法院在命令政府提供原告在宪法和法律上有权得到的通知和程序时超越其补救权力的可能性更容易接受。这种自由裁量权的使用是不可理解的，也是不可原谅的。恕我直言，但遗憾的是，我不同意。”
移民倡导者要求大法官在美国政府不情愿地将任何人送到出生地或国籍以外的国家之前，保留要求“有意义的通知和被听取的机会”的全国性禁令。
特朗普官员称法院下令的要求“繁重”且非法。
高等法院在以前的一个案件中一致表示，潜在的被驱逐者必须得到正当程序保护。但是法官们还没有详细说明在每个案件中到底需要什么。
国土安全部发言人Tricia McLaughlin在X的一份声明中说，法院的决定是“美国人民安全和保障的重大胜利”，并补充说，“启动驱逐飞机。”
该案的原告批评了最高法院的暂缓判决，并发誓要继续抗争。
“最高法院命令的后果将是可怕的;它剥夺了保护我们的集体成员免受酷刑和死亡的关键正当程序保护，”全国移居诉讼联盟。“然而，重要的是，法院的裁决只对法院在案件的中间阶段提供这些保护的权力提出质疑——我们现在需要尽快结束案件并恢复这些保护。”
Supreme Court allows Trump to resume 3rd-country removals without court-ordered due process requirements
The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Monday delivered a significant win for the Trump administration's immigration policy, clearing the way for officials to resume deportation of migrants to third countries without additional due process requirements imposed by a district court judge.
The nation's hight court did not explain the decision, but it said the stay of Judge Brian Murphy's mandate would terminate should the administration ultimately lose an appeal on the merits. Litigation is ongoing, but is expected to take years to complete.
The case was brought by a group of detainees said to be headed to South Sudan who alleged they were never given a chance to raise fears of torture. Judge Murphy last month issued a preliminary injunction halting any future removals unless detainees were given notice of their destination, at least 10 days to raise concerns for their safety and 15 days to contest an adverse finding by an immigration officer.
The effective impact of the Supreme Court's order on Monday is a resumption of expedited removals of dozens of unauthorized immigrants to countries other than their own. The Trump administration has sent plane loads to El Salvador, Guatemala, South Sudan and Libya.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, issued a biting dissent, accusing her colleagues of condoning "lawless" behavior by the administration in "matters of life and death."
"This Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied," Sotomayor wrote. "I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court's equitable discretion."
"The Due Process Clause represents 'the principle that ours is a government of laws, not of men, and that we submit ourselves to rulers only if under rules,'" Sotomayor wrote. "By rewarding lawlessness, the Court once again undermines that foundational principle."
"Apparently, the Court finds the idea that thousands will suffer violence in farflung locales more palatable than the remote possibility that a District Court exceeded its remedial powers when it ordered the Government to provide notice and process to which the plaintiffs are constitutionally and statutorily entitled. That use of discretion is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable. Respectfully, but regretfully, I dissent."
Immigrant advocates had asked the justices to keep in place the nationwide injunction requiring "meaningful notice and opportunity to be heard" before any person is sent unwillingly by the U.S. government to a country other than their place of birth or citizenship.
Trump officials had called the court-ordered requirements "onerous" and illegal.
The high court had unanimously indicated in a prior case that potential deportees must be given due process protections. But the justices have not yet spelled out in detail what exactly that requires in each case.
Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement on X that the court's decision is a "MAJOR win for the safety and security of the American people," adding, "fire up the deportation planes."
The plaintiffs in the case criticized the Supreme Court's granted stay and vowed to keep fighting.
"The ramifications of Supreme Court's order will be horrifying; it strips away critical due process protections that have been protecting our class members from torture and death," said Trina Realmuto, the executive director of the NationalImmigrationLitigation Alliance. "Importantly, however, the Court's ruling only takes issue with the court's authority to afford these protections at this intermediate stage of the case -- we now need to move as swiftly as possible to conclude the case and restore these protections."
