By Molly Claire Goddard
3:15am PDT, May 23, 2025
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A court is shutting down one of
Donald Trump's bold political moves again.
During an emergency hearing on Wednesday, May 21, U.S. District Judge with the Court of Massachusetts
Brian Murphy ruled that the Department of Homeland Security "unquestionably" violated legal authority by sending a group of illegal immigrants to South Sudan.
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During the hearing, Judge Brian Murphy claimed Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security did not give migrants enough time between their notice of
deportation and removal for a chance to contest the decision.
"It was impossible for these people to have a meaningful opportunity to object to their transfer to South Sudan," the legal authority explained in court. "The Department's actions in this case are unquestionably violative of this court's order."
According to
reports, the illegal immigrants were alerted of their deportation on Monday evening and were placed on a plane heading to South Sudan on Tuesday morning. Although the flight did land in the region, the people onboard were allegedly kept on the aircraft in ICE custody.
Per insiders, the notice the migrants received of their eviction from the United States was only given to them in English, even though the people in question do not understand the language.
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Judge Brian Murphy previously issued a ruling stopping Donald Trump and his administration from deporting migrants without due process.
Despite ordering the emergency hearing over the group sent to South Sudan, Murphy has not yet made a decision on whether to order the return of all or some of the deportees.
During the hearing, the judge made clear he "intends to amend his previous ruling to give a more specific time frame before people can be sent to third countries."
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This is far from the only legal hurdle Donald Trump has faced in the past week. On Friday, May 16, the
Supreme Court ruled the right-wing leader could not use the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to send a group of alleged Venezuelan gang members out of the United States until a lower court ruled on the matter.
"The Government has represented elsewhere that it is unable to provide for the return of an individual deported in error to a prison in El Salvador where it is alleged that detainees face indefinite detention," the Supreme Court said in their ruling. "The [Texas] detainees' interests at stake are accordingly particularly weighty. Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster."
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In typical fashion, Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to rail against the Supreme Court
ruling.
"The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members and even those who are mentally insane, who came into our country illegally, are not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted and expensive legal process, one that will take, possibly, many years for each person and one that will allow these people to commit many crimes before they even see the inside of a Courthouse," he wrote on Friday, May 16.
