Judge who was slapped by Supreme Court over faulty ruling issues it AGAIN!
A federal judge whose anti-Trump deportation order months ago was struck down by the Supreme Court, which then scolded him for insisting it still was in effect, is issuing another ant-Trump order on immigration and deportation.
The central figure in the drama now developing is Judge Brian E. Murphy.
He ruled this week that the third-country deportation practice of the administration of President Donald Trump was barred because he wants the illegal aliens, some of whom have criminal records besides their offense of violating federal law to break into the U.S., to have the opportunity to argue against deportation.
Fox News reported last year a 6-3 Supreme Court ordered a stay on Murphy’s injunction over the same deportation policy.
Just days later, the justices issued a 7-2 order admonishing the judge because he flouted the decision, taking it on himself to overrule the Supreme Court.
Murphy had claimed because of a technicality that his order was still “in full force and effect.”
The report said the judge’s antics “led the Department of Justice to ask the Supreme Court for clarification, and the high court responded by issuing its follow-up 7-2 opinion saying Murphy could not block DHS from deporting the six migrants.”
That ruling stated, “Our June 23 order stayed the April 18 preliminary injunction in full. The May 21 remedial order cannot now be used to enforce an injunction that our stay rendered unenforceable.”
The Supreme Court even noted that if the government wanted more help to stop Murphy’s political agenda, it could seek a writ of mandamus, a rare legal tool used by a higher court to force a lower court judge to follow the law.
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US Judge Brian Murphy ruled that Trump administration policy allowing for the rapid deportation of migrants to countries other than their own, without giving them a meaningful opportunity to raise fears of persecution or torture, is unlawful.
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Solicitor General John Sauer, in that first fight, described the judge’s actions as a “lawless act of defiance.”
Murphy’s new ruling Thursday said the DHS deportation policy was “not fine nor is it legal.”
His claims are expected to be escalated again.
It was USAToday that said the Biden-appointed judge’s actions follow his being overturned and “rebuked” by the Supreme Court.
Murphy’s claims were that the DHS deportation process was invalid because it violated the migrants’ due process by not giving them enough time to raise fears that they could be tortured in the country they are sent to.