US Supreme Court allows Trump to continue third-country deportations

The high court grants an emergency petition ahead of expected arguments in the case, slated for December.The United States Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to continue third-country deportations, halting a lower-court ruling that paused such removals over questions of due process.On Tuesday, the high court granted the administration’s emergency request to resume the deportations, which involve sending immigrants to countries they may have no connection to.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3‘Not a small issue’: People deported by US to Liberia face uncertain futurelist 2 of 3‘Wrong’: Trump administration completes deportations to South Sudanlist 3 of 3US court blocks Trump plan to deport migrants to third countriesend of listThe court’s order was unsigned, as is typical for an emergency petition. It also does not include an explanation or a list of how the justices voted.But at the bottom of Tuesday’s order, the court’s three left-leaning justices – Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan – indicated they would have denied the Trump administration’s petition.The Supreme Court’s decision to pause the lower court ruling is tem...