The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily put aside a Massachusetts federal judge’s restrictions on third-country deportations, allowing the Trump administration’s policy to remain in effect while the case proceeds. The justices set a hearing for December.
The court will consider whether the judge could hear the immigrants’ claims as a class action, whether the Supreme Court may decide the case, and whether the government’s policy complies with federal law and the Constitution. The lower-court order had required the government to notify people where they would be sent and give them a chance to contest removal. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson opposed the administration’s request.
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