‘Unreal’: Legal experts blast Supreme Court for leaving Trump ‘unrestrained’

Legal experts and lawyers were aghast on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump's administration can deport eight immigrants to South Sudan.

The case stemmed from an effort by the Trump administration to deport immigrants to third countries where they have no ties. A lower court issued an injunction against the deportations. However, the Supreme Court said in an unsigned order that the judge's order is "unenforceable."

In a blistering dissent, Justice Sonya Sotomayor wrote that the order allows the administration to send immigrants abroad "without regard for the likelihood that they will face torture or death."

"Today’s order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial," Sotomayor's dissent reads in part.

Trina Realmuto, a lawyer for the eight men, told NBC News in an email that the Supreme Court's decision "rewards the government" for not following a lower court's orders.

"Just unreal!" Nicolette Glazer, an immigration attorney, replied to a post on X sharing part of the order. She added that it leaves the administration "completely unrestrained" to send people to third countries.

"SCOTUS after allowing summary rendition of people who are under an order of removal to any mercenary country agreeing to be paid to take in US deportees -- without even a word for why is that permissible under jus cogens and domestic law -- has now lifted a remedial order preventing 8 non-citizens to be sent to South Sudan. The legal reasoning in response to the arguments of non-refoulement: hold my beer," Glazer wrote.

"The Supreme Court’s endorsement of chilling human rights abuses continues," wrote immigration attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnick in a post on X.