Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention it plainly requires, this court now intervenes to grant the government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied.
Sotomayor criticized the Supreme Court's decision to intervene in deportation cases.
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