The Supreme Court ruled to deport eight migrants to South Sudan, a nation where they may face torture and death without any prior connection to it. Their deportation violated a lower court's order as they were expelled from the U.S. without due process. This decision reflects the court's troubling trend of empowering the Trump administration’s expansive executive authority, often prioritizing its own supremacy over meaningful limitations on presidential power. The justices appear complicit in the administration's attempts to undermine civil liberties and democratic governance, supporting various autocratic ambitions without significant restraint.
On Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court issued a brief order condemning eight migrants to banishment in South Sudan, where they face the very real possibility of torture and death.
None of the eight men had ever set foot in the war-torn African nation, and they had all been expelled from the United States without due process in direct violation of a lower court order.
Aside from a few sporadic attempts to rein in Trump's most lawless excesses, the court has largely given up policing the president's power grabs.
The Supreme Court has settled on a posture of complicity toward the executive branch's assault on civil liberties and democracy.
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