Supreme Court pauses district court order preventing immigrants from being deported to third-party countries

Since this was an "emergency" ruling, the majority opinion was not required to say why they felt it was constitutional to send a person to a prison in a war-torn country they're not a citizen of without having due process. This is straight up kidnapping and human trafficking. It's one thing to argue that a person who doesn't have proof of citizenship in the US has to go back to the country where they do have citizenship, but to send them to a prison in Africa without any kind of court trial? That's insane. I can't even imagine what justification the judges would give for saying that doesn't violate due process rights of all people in the US. Because the constitution doesn't say only citizens have the right to due process. Even the evil nutjob Scalia formally stated, "aliens [non-citizens] [are entitled] to due process of law in deportation proceedings."

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It must be so frustrating to be lower court judiciary leaders today.
Since this was an "emergency" ruling, the majority opinion was not required to say why they felt it was constitutional to send a person to a prison in a war-torn country they're not a citizen of without having due process. This is straight up kidnapping and human trafficking. It's one thing to argue that a person who doesn't have proof of citizenship in the US has to go back to the country where they do have citizenship, but to send them to a prison in Africa without any kind of court trial? That's insane. I can't even imagine what justification the judges would give for saying that doesn't violate due process rights of all people in the US. Because the constitution doesn't say only citizens have the right to due process. Even the evil nutjob Scalia formally stated, "aliens [non-citizens] [are entitled] to due process of law in deportation proceedings."
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