Trump hit with court smackdown in bid to hold deportees in Guantanamo Bay
Source: Raw Story
December 5, 2025 9:09PM ET
A federal judge said on Friday that President Donald Trump did not have the legal authority to hold immigrants at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba before shipping them out for deportation, The New York Times reported.
U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, did not immediately order the operation to be shut down, but denied the government's motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, which has vowed to seek a closure order.
"While successive administrations have for decades housed migrants at Guantánamo who have been intercepted at sea trying to reach the United States, Judge Sooknanan found that never before had the U.S. government used the base to hold people being deported from the United States," said the report.
"The White House began using Guantánamo as a way station for deportees in February after an order from President Trump to prepare the base to hold up to 30,000 migrants."
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/guantanamo-bay-2674374643/
Link to NYT article - Judge Rules Trump Exceeded Authority by Holding Deportees at Guantánamo
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Original SUIT (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277395/gov.uscourts.dcd.277395.1.0.pdf
Amended SUIT (as Class Action) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277395/gov.uscourts.dcd.277395.34.0.pdf