FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan migrants flown from Guantanamo Bay via Honduras, walk up a ladder after arriving on a deportation flight at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, La Guaira State, Venezuela, February 20, 2025. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo
(Reuters) -President Donald Trump's administration accused a federal judge on Tuesday of defying the U.S. Supreme Court's authority, escalating a fight over a group of eight migrants who it had sought to rapidly deport to politically unstable South Sudan.
In a filing to the Supreme Court, the Justice Department said U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy showed "unprecedented defiance" by ignoring Monday's decision by the justices that let the administration resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show the harms they could face.
