Plaintiff J. G. G., for example, had no chance to tell a court that the tattoos causing DHS to suspect him of gang membership were unrelated to a gang. He stated under oath that he is a tattoo artist who "got [an] eye tattoo because [he] saw it on Google" and "thought it looked cool".
Justice Sotomayor concluded, "The Government's conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law. That a majority of this Court now rewards the Government for its behavior with discretionary equitable relief is indefensible. We, as a Nation and a court of law, should be better than this. I respectfully dissent."
The Supreme Court should have denied Trump's Justice Department relief and kept Judge Boasberg's injunction intact-- this would have required that the United States return the immigrants back to the United States for due process hearings. Since all nine Supreme Court justices agreed that these immigrants are entitled to a hearing, it is appalling, outrageous and unjustifiable that the court denied these immigrants due process of law.
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