{"id":5994,"date":"2025-06-24T00:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2025-06-24T00:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:47:27","slug":"ein-urteil-gegen-die-menschlichkeit-der-supreme-court-gibt-trump-gruenes-licht-fuer-abschiebungen-in-drittstaaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/ein-urteil-gegen-die-menschlichkeit-der-supreme-court-gibt-trump-gruenes-licht-fuer-abschiebungen-in-drittstaaten\/","title":{"rendered":"A Judgment Against Humanity \u2013 The Supreme Court Gives Trump Green Light for Deportations to Third Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington \u2013 It was a day when power triumphed over the law. On June 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by a six-to-three vote that the Trump administration may once again deport migrants to so-called third countries \u2013 nations that are neither the country of origin nor destination, but rather geopolitical waystations along the path of fleeing war, misery, and persecution. Places like Djibouti, Honduras, or Georgia \u2013 where no family awaits, no protection is offered, and no reliable legal process is guaranteed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ruling overturned a preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court in Boston. In April (Case No. 1:25-cv-1234), Judge Brian Murphy had ruled that deportations to third countries were only permissible if individuals were first given a genuine opportunity to challenge the decision legally and present evidence. That legal safeguard has now been obliterated by the Court\u2019s conservative majority. Chief Justice John Roberts and his five conservative colleagues \u2013 Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett \u2013 refused to provide any written justification. Not a sentence, not a paragraph, not a single line of legal reasoning. This deliberate silence is not merely a display of institutional arrogance \u2013 it is the ultimate admission of a court now firmly in the hands of fanatical MAGA hardliners. Such a \u201cruling,\u201d handed down without any discernible legal argument, lacks all legitimacy under the rule of law. It does not deserve to be called a judgment \u2013 it is, rather, a regime dispatch, a dictated execution order from the engine room of power. Those who adjudicate in this manner do not deliver justice \u2013 they execute. And those who remain silent do so not out of humility before the law, but out of contempt for its spirit. It must be said plainly: with this act, the majority of the Court has become the execution tribunal of Trumpism. This institutional self-denial \u2013 the deliberate substitution of silence for legal responsibility \u2013 is a political act clothed in judicial restraint, and therefore an assault on the very foundations of the separation of powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, the dissent was delivered with force: Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, issued a 19-page dissenting opinion in which she described the ruling as \u201ca gross abuse of judicial authority.\u201d Deporting migrants to countries where they face the threat of torture, persecution, or death, she wrote, violates not only fundamental moral principles \u2013 but also the Constitution. She warned that this decision places migrants at risk of \u201ctorture or death.\u201d The ruling, she said, marked a regression into policies devoid of both humanity and legal standards. The case involved eight migrants \u2013 including individuals from Cuba, Myanmar, Laos, Mexico, Vietnam, and South Sudan \u2013 who, according to the lawsuit, were deported to a U.S. military base in Djibouti near the South Sudanese border. Six of them had prior convictions, which the Trump administration classified as national security risks. Yet Judge Murphy had clearly stated that even in such cases, a minimum threshold of legal protection must apply. The plaintiffs had no realistic opportunity to credibly demonstrate the danger of violence or persecution in the third countries.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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