Blanche vows Supreme Court appeal after third-country deportations blocked

The Trump administration will ask the Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court put into effect a ruling invalidating the government’s framework for rapid third-country deportations, Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday.

The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Wednesday night dissolving a prior stay that had kept the lower court’s ruling on hold during the appeal. The action put into effect the court’s Friday merits decision, which found that the Department of Homeland Security could not deport immigrants to countries not named in their removal orders without first providing meaningful notice and an opportunity to raise fears of persecution or torture.