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Justice Department Seeks Supreme Court Stay on Deportations
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- Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to block a 1st Circuit ruling halting third-country deportations.
- Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an emergency appeal Thursday seeking an immediate stay.
- Sauer asked Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to refer the case to the full Court if she denied the stay.
- Sauer said the orders disrupt diplomatic plans, cost the government massively, and have scuttled about 220 deportations.