The Supreme Court Just Ruled That Trump Can Deport Foreigners to Any Country He Wants

Now they grab you, detain you, and can ship you off to detention in Yemen, Sudan, Thailand, or the motherfcking moon for all anyone knows, thanks to the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Have a nice trip, to the land of Wherever You End Up, y’all. From Politico:

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to swiftly deport foreigners to countries where they have no previous ties.

The justices lifted an order from a federal judge in Boston who had placed restrictions on the deportations to those countries. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy had issued a nationwide injunction that required the administration to give immigrants “meaningful” advance notice and a chance to raise objections before they are sent to so-called third countries—nations not specified in their original deportation orders. But the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to put Murphy’s injunction on hold.

The high court’s action grants officials added flexibility to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, particularly in cases involving countries that resist taking back their own citizens when they are ordered deported from the U.S. The justices’ ruling came in a case that produced explosive controversies over the Trump administration’s attempts to deport some immigrants with criminal records to Libya and South Sudan.

I’d quote the majority’s opinion at length, but there isn’t one. This is classic end-of-term ring-and-run cowardice from a claque of entitled pets of the emerging oligarchy. However, the three liberal women issued yet another high-caliber dissent full of high-caliber, simple logic. From NPR:

Monday’s unsigned order puts Murphy’s decision on hold while the legal process continues in the lower courts. The court’s three liberals—Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson—dissented. “In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution,” the dissenters wrote. “In this case, the Government took the opposite approach.”

“This Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied,” Sotomayor wrote in the dissenting opinion, which Kagan and Jackson joined. “I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.”

I doubt they could hear her from Harlan Crow’s fishing cabin, but it’s a noble attempt at maintaining a tiny modicum of dignity in the court’s activities.