A District Judge Defies The Supreme Court By Enforcing An Injunction the Court Had Just Stayed.

What better way to celebrate his 200th day as a federal judge!!

On the afternoon of Monday, June 23, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a short order that read as follows:

This is an Order entered granting a Motion filed by the DOJ to stop a District Court’s Injunction from being enforced while the Injunction was pending appeal in the First Circuit Court of Appeal. That court had declined to issue the stay on the District Judge’s Injunction.

As noted by the dissenting Justices being identified, the vote was 6-3 in favor of granting the Stay. There was no majority “Opinion” explaining the order, but Justice Sotomayor wrote a 19 page opinion explaining her “No” vote, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson.

This is the case initially involving 8 illegal aliens who — after being convicted of crimes in the United States, had gone through the deportation process prescribed by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), and were issued Final Orders of Removal meaning there was no legal basis for them to remain in the United States.

Their criminal cases were concluded.

Their immigration cases were concluded.

But they were all detained in the United States because their home countries has refused to accept their return back from the United States as part of their deportation.

But let’s be clear about just who are these persons that are set for removal to third countries because their home countries won’t accept them back.

There are illegal aliens with no right to remain in the United States. They have been convicted of crimes and served prison sentences in the United States. The individuals specifically implicated in this case have variously been convicted of murder, rape, and sex abuse of a child under 7 years of age. But they are just the exemplars of a much larger class of illegal aliens convicted of egregious and heinous crimes that the Trump Administration is serious about removing from the United States.

If their own countries won’t take them back because of the threats they pose to public safety, what is the remedy for the citizens of the United States who don’t want them to remain here? Wait for them to victimize more people and send them back to prison again?