Published September 28, 2026 at 1:55 PM ET · Updated September 29, 2026 at 8:07 PM ET
Supreme Court move could reshape Trump deportation policy
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The Supreme Court agreed to hear a fight over the Trump administration's third-country deportation policy. The move allows the deportations to continue while the case proceeds and could have major consequences for the policy.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Yamataya v. Fisher held that an alien who has entered the country cannot be removed without notice and a meaningful opportunity to be heard. A. A. R. P. v. Trump held that notice roughly 24 hours before removal, with no information on how to contest it, flunks due process. The exact process owed before removal to a third country remains unsettled.
Kaoru Yamataya v. Thomas M. Fisher, Immigrant and Chinese Inspector (The Japanese Immigrant Case) 189 U.S. 86 (1903)
Vote: Majority for the Court (Harlan); Brewer and Peckham dissenting. Exact 7-2 tally not… · Opinion: Harlan
Although Congress may commit exclusion and deportation to executive officers without judicial trial, an alien who has landed and become part of the U.S.
A. A. R. P. v. Trump, President of the United States 605 U.S. ___ (2025) (per curiam)
Vote: 7-2 · Opinion: Per curiam (unsigned)
The Court (having intervened by an extraordinary post-midnight order on April 19, 2025 barring removals from the Northern District of Texas) held: (1) it had jurisdiction because the district court's inaction in the face of imminent removals had the practical effect of refusing an injunction; (2) on notice, the government's practice flunked due process — 'notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster' under Trump v.
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