Judge ‘Flagrantly Defies’ Supreme Court Ruling On Deporting Illegal Immigrants

A federal judge who was nominated by former President Joe Biden openly defied the Supreme Court on Monday, ignoring the high court’s stay of the preliminary injunction he had issued blocking the Trump administration from deporting illegal immigrants.

In April, Judge Brian E. Murphy, who was confirmed when the U.S. Senate was controlled by Democrats last December, granted a preliminary injunction to illegal immigrants — all of whom had been convicted of serious crimes —  who had challenged the Trump administration’s order deporting them. “Several of the men have convictions for murder, the White House said, while others have convictions for drug, violent or sexual crimes,” the Worcester Telegram & Gazette pointed out.

This leftwing radical Biden judge got jammed through the Senate in December, in the lame-duck session after Democrats lost the White House and Senate.

Six months into the job, Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy is now openly defying a Supreme Court order.

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On May 20, the eight illegal immigrants were transported on a plane headed to South Sudan, where the government said it would repatriate the men to their home countries. On May 21, Murphy said the Trump administration had violated his April 21 order. On May 27, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to put a stay on Murphy’s injunction.

On Monday, June 23, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Trump administration could deport illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes to “third countries.” But on Monday evening, Murphy issued an order stating, “The Court’s May 21, 2025 Order on Remedy remains in full force and effect, notwithstanding today’s stay of the Preliminary Injunction. The District Court’s remedial orders [were] not properly before the [Supreme] Court because the Government has not appealed them, or sought a stay pending a forthcoming appeal.”

“Last night, hours after the Supreme Court 6-3 blocked a Boston district judge’s lawless preliminary injunction preventing the government from removing the worst of the worst illegal aliens to third countries, the district judge announced business as usual and said its orders enforcing the injunction remained in effect,” Chad Mizelle, Chief of Staff at the Department of Justice, wrote on X. “When a single district judge immediately and flagrantly defies the Supreme Court, that is not the rule of law—it is an Article III insurrection.”

Last night, hours after the Supreme Court 6-3 blocked a Boston district judge’s lawless preliminary injunction preventing the government from removing the worst of the worst illegal aliens to third countries, the district judge announced business as usual and said its orders…

— Chad Mizelle (@ChadMizelle47) June 24, 2025

“Today is Justice Kagan’s ultimate test,” he continued. “She, more than any other Justice, has invoked the rhetoric of respecting the rule of law. She, more than any other Justice, should now recognize that the greatest threat to the rule of law comes from district courts openly defying Supreme Court judgments hours after their issuance.”

Today is Justice Kagan’s ultimate test. She, more than any other Justice, has invoked the rhetoric of respecting the rule of law. She, more than any other Justice, should now recognize that the greatest threat to the rule of law comes from district courts openly defying Supreme…

— Chad Mizelle (@ChadMizelle47) June 24, 2025