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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting eight asylum-seekers who say they are fleeing the horrors in their home countries.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss, a Barack Obama appointee, issued an administrative stay blocking the deportations as the court seeks further information from the U.S. Justice Department on Friday before another hearing scheduled for Monday.
Moss became the third on the bench, along with a federal appellate panel in Massachusetts and U.S. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan, to cite a concurrent opinion from Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by Trump, in issuing administrative stays on Trump executive orders.
In the stay ruling, Moss quoted Barrett’s comments that administrative stays can be used for “freez[ing] legal proceedings until the court can rule on a party’s request for expedited relief.”
“Defendants shall not remove Plaintiffs A.M., Z.A., T.A., A.T., M.A., N.S., B.R., and G.A. during the pendency of the stay,” Moss wrote in the order.
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