The Supreme Court on Thursday granted a request by the Trump administration to send eight men who have spent more than a month imprisoned on a U.S. military base in Djibouti to war-ravaged South Sudan.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
By a 7-2 vote, the justices lifted an order from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy that had blocked the men’s expulsion to South Sudan. Murphy intervened despite a Supreme Court ruling last month that put a hold on a prior nationwide injunction he issued requiring the administration to give deportees advance notice of their destination and a “meaningful” chance to object if they believed they’d be in danger of harm.
I don’t get the point of this. Is the point to send people to some place so inhospitable that it scares future refugees from attempting to apply for asylum?
Be very curious to know Kagan’s reasoning.
I hate the Supreme Court SO much. Also, Elena Kagan, WTAF?!