Lawyers urge SCOTUS to keep blocking 'third-country' deportations
Source: Law & Crime
Jun 4th, 2025, 7:23 pm
Immigration lawyers are imploring the U.S. Supreme Court to leave in place a lower court order barring the government from summarily deporting people to countries they are not from without due process.
In a 43-page opposition to the Trump administration‘s application for a stay, attorneys representing a class of immigrants subject to third-country removal slammed the government for creating the problem they recently complained about in their emergency bid.
“Defendants’ own choices—to violate the district court’s orders and to opt to implement the court’s remedy for those violations overseas—are causing the operational and diplomatic difficulties about which they complain,” the motion reads. “But Defendants exaggerate the scope of their harm and the extent to which the injunction limits their pursuit of lawful solutions. Defendants’ real grievance is with being ordered to comply with the law prohibiting third-country deportations to countries where noncitizens would face persecution or torture.”
The dispute in the case stylized as DHS v D.V.D. stem from a three-month-long series of opinions issued by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, a Joe Biden appointee, which finally culminated in a national injunction barring such third-country deportations. The stream of court orders in the case was steady – six from the district court; two from a court of appeals – and responsive to the Trump administration’s continued efforts to conduct third-country deportations.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/complying-with-the-law-is-not-a-cognizable-injury-lawyers-urge-scotus-to-keep-blocking-third-country-deportations-needle-trump-admin-for-consequences-of-their-own-actions/
Full headline: ‘Complying with the law is not a cognizable injury’: Lawyers urge SCOTUS to keep blocking ‘third-country’ deportations, needle Trump admin for ‘consequences of their own actions’
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A1153/362298/20250604143617283_DHS%20v.%20DVD%20-%20Opp%20Stay%20-%20FINAL.pdf