Judge pleads with Trump administration for 'reason over rhetoric' in deportation case

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

05/27/2025 07:05 AM EDT


A federal judge said the Trump administration is falsely blaming him for a crisis of its own making: the rushed deportation of seven men to South Sudan in violation of court orders and constitutional due process. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy said Monday the hurried deportations were an overt violation of orders he put in place weeks ago, which required the administration to provide “meaningful” notice before deporting people to countries where they could face torture or death.

Even after the violation, Murphy said he exercised restraint by not forcing the administration to bring the seven convicted violent criminals back to the United States. Rather, the Boston-based Biden appointee agreed to a request from the Trump administration: Instead of requiring the men be brought back to the U.S., he allowed them to remain in U.S. custody overseas while giving them a chance to raise fear of potential violence and danger in South Sudan.

They’re currently being held on a U.S. military base in Djibouti, a small country on the nearby Horn of Africa.
“It continues to be the court’s hope that reason can get the better of rhetoric,” Murphy wrote in his withering Monday night order rejecting the Trump administration’s demand that he reconsider or delay the effect of his ruling. “The orders put in place here are sensible and conservative.”

It’s Murphy’s latest salvo after President Donald Trump and his top allies attempted to turn the judge into a poster child for their campaign of hostility toward judges who rule against their immigration priorities.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/judge-trump-south-sudan-deportation-case-00369946

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.135.0.pdf

[twodogsbarking]

1. Judge pleads? You're a judge not a beggar.

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. If you are a judge and are pleading your case to a party

before you, you are losing.

[PSPS]

3. "he exercised restraint" -- LOL. How demeaning. Do knee pads come with the robe?

[Hotler]

4. "It continues to be the court's hope that reason can get the better of rhetoric," There's the problem,

"hope" and "reason". How about, "arrested for contempt of court". followed by, "bring them home now". Think of it as defending the constitution against domestic enemies.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. The unfortunate "reality" of today's judges

is that day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, they are used to having to sit through the "theatrics" and "hyperbole" that goes on in a trial court. So they have all pretty much numbed themselves to it and generally, probably 90+% of the time, things never escalate beyond what the normal steps taken for dealing with belligerent parties, can resolve.

But with 45, he has spent the past 50+ years doing this sort of thing. And now he has the power of the federal government behind him, peopled by a bunch of unqualified TV personalities who are backed by a bunch of fringe RW purportedly "educated" loons, who have the ridiculous "blessing" of the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS, they have found themselves dealing with something that they are not used to. Thus they are quickly finding out that the "traditional" methods will not work.

[travelingthrulife]

6. Quit pleading and throw the crooks in jail.

[republianmushroom]

7. Judge, dude, they told you to go pound sand.