The Trump administration is cutting to the chase on that case in which several illegal aliens (whose immigration cases had already been litigated) were removed to South Sudan. Following a slew of orders issued by Judge Brian Murphy in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and a denial of a stay pending appeal by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, the administration is taking its case directly to the Supreme Court with an application for stay filed on Tuesday.
So…how did we get here?
Once again, I’ll lean on my colleague Ward Clark to set the stage:
To begin at the beginning: On Tuesday, a federal district judge, Brian E. Murphy, ordered the Department of Homeland Security to maintain custody of any illegal aliens being deported to a third-party nation — that is, a nation that is neither the United States nor the home country of…
