Trump Asks Supreme Court to Lift Block on Torture Risk Deportations

Solicitor Sauer warns that a Massachusetts judge’s ruling disrupts immigration enforcement and diplomacy; immigrant advocates call it a life-or-death check on executive overreach.

WASHINGTON — In a fast-moving legal fight with high stakes for immigrant rights, the Trump administration on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to lift a federal court order that has temporarily blocked deportations to countries not explicitly named in removal orders—unless the government can first prove that deportees will not face torture.

The emergency request was filed by U.S. Solicitor D. John Sauer, who argued that the lower court’s ruling is “wreaking havoc” on immigration enforcement and upending international diplomacy. “These judicially created procedures,” Sauer wrote, “are interfering with the executive’s ability to remove some of the worst of the worst illegal aliens.”