Update: Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, denied the emergency motion filed by the plaintiffs’ attorneys so the 8 illegal aliens stuck in Djibouti will be flown to South Sudan tonight at 7 pm ET.
As reported earlier, just hours after the Supreme Court issued a ruling, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from transferring the 8 illegal aliens stuck in Djibouti to South Sudan.
Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee, held an emergency hearing earlier Friday before a flight scheduled for 7 pm departed Djibouti to transfer the illegals to South Sudan.
Some of the aliens are from Laos, Vietnam, and Cuba, so sending them to South Sudan puts them in danger, attorneys argued.
These criminal alien killers and rapists are so dangerous that their own home countries refused to take them back so the Trump Administration deported them to South Sudan.
Judge Moss punted the case to a district court in Massachusetts with Biden-appointed Judge Brian Murphy (the original judge assigned to the case) and gave the plaintiffs’ attorneys one hour to file their emergency claim.
Later Friday with just an hour to go until the plane in Djibouti was set to depart, Judge Brian Murphy denied the plaintiffs’ emergency motion to stop the transfer to South Sudan.
Judge Murphy said the Supreme Court already granted the Trump Administration relief on this matter.
“This Court interprets these Supreme Court orders as binding on this new petition, as Petitioners are now raising substantially similar claims, and therefore Petitioners motion is denied,” the judge wrote.
UPDATE: Judge Murphy denies the emergency motion — it appears the men will be South Sudan-bound within the hour. He lays it at the feet of the Supreme Court. https://t.co/WogwiK90PU pic.twitter.com/DXwh876RMF
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 4, 2025
The US Supreme Court 7-2 on Thursday granted the Trump Administration’s request to lift judge Murphy’s order blocking the deportation of the 8 illegals currently stuck in Djibouti.
Liberal Justice Elena Kagan joined the conservative justices and issued a concurring opinion.
However, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor fumed in her dissenting opinion. Justice Jackson joined Sotomayor.
Sotomayor said the Trump Administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial.
