President Trump says he hopes the Supreme Court will “put an END to the quagmire that has been caused by the Radical Left,” pointing to how a federal judge in Boston blocked a deportation flight of illegal aliens to South Sudan.

The Trump administration is sounding off after federal Judge Brian Murphy, who President Biden appointed to the District of Massachusetts last year, ruled the flight to the war-torn African nation “unquestionably” violated one of his previous court orders.

In April, Murphy ruled aliens subject to removal must be allowed to argue that their safety would be jeopardized if they were deported to a country other than their homeland. That led the judge to block flights to Libya earlier this month.

In an emergency hearing to address reports of the flight headed for South Sudan, Murphy said the eight illegal immigrants convicted of violent crime aboard the plane were not given a meaningful opportunity to object that the deportation could put them in danger.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement documents show that the eight people on the flight had been convicted of murder or child rape, some with final deportation orders dating back to 1999, 2005 and 2009.

Murphy also ruled that the aliens on the plane, which has since reportedly been stationed at a U.S. base in the East African nation of Djibouti, be given no less than 72 hours’ notice for “credible fear screenings” and 15 days to reopen their immigration cases if they have a “credible fear.”

“A Federal Judge in Boston, who knew absolutely nothing about the situation, or anything else, has ordered that EIGHT of the most violent criminals on Earth curtail their journey to South Sudan, and instead remain in Djibouti,” Trump sounded off on Truth Social on Thursday. “He would not allow these monsters to proceed to their final destination.”

“This is not the premise under which I was elected President, which was to PROTECT our Nation,” the president added. “The Judges are absolutely out of control, they’re hurting our Country, and they know nothing about particular situations, or what they are doing — And this must change, IMMEDIATELY!”

Murphy ordered the Department of Homeland Security to provide status reports on the eight criminal illegal aliens once a week, either in the U.S. or overseas, if the convicted criminals have access to phones and attorneys.

Their home countries — Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and South Sudan — would not take them back, according to Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, who spoke to reporters in Washington. He later said they either came from countries that often do not take back all their deported citizens or had other situations that meant they could not be sent home.

“It was impossible for these people to have a meaningful opportunity to object to their transfer to South Sudan,” Murphy said.

Murphy, a Columbia Law School graduate, served as a public defender at the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services from 2006 to 2009 before serving as a partner of a firm from 2011 to 2024.

“Judge Brian Murphy is not the secretary of state, he is not the secretary of defense, or the commander in chief. He is a district court judge in Massachusetts,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in Washington on Thursday. “He cannot control foreign policy or national security of the United States of America, and to suggest otherwise is being completely absurd.”

On Friday, Murphy ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan national it deported to Mexico.

The man, who is gay, was protected from being returned to his home country under a court order. But the U.S. put him on a bus and sent him to Mexico instead, a removal that Murphy found likely “lacked any semblance of due process.”

An earlier court proceeding that determined the alien, identified by the initials O.C.G., risked persecution or torture if returned to Guatemala, but he also feared returning to Mexico. He presented evidence of being raped and held for ransom there while seeking asylum in the U.S.

The illegal alien entered the U.S. twice last year. After his first attempt, he was deported back to Guatemala. As he crossed through Mexico on his second try, court documents show he was raped and held hostage until a family member paid ransom.

“No one has ever suggested that O.C.G. poses any sort of security threat,” Murphy wrote. “In general, this case presents no special facts or legal circumstances, only the banal horror of a man being wrongfully loaded onto a bus and sent back to a country where he was allegedly just raped and kidnapped.”

Reacting to the latest ruling, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin, who slammed Murphy after the South Sudan ruling, called the judge an “activist” in a statement and said the administration will appeal.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller also criticized Murphy’s South Sudan ruling during an interview on NewsMax on Friday.

“Is this judge mad? Is this a lunatic?” Miller said. “Illegal aliens who invaded our country and murdered our people, and now we are sending them out and a judge says no? That is a judicial coup by any definition.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report