Josh Hawley says judicial injunctions ‘usurping the will of the people’

Published June 5, 2025 11:15am ET



Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) lamented that judicial injunctions have led to the inability to “deport terrorists from our country.”

Hawley was seemingly referring to U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, who stopped the deportation of convicted illegal immigrant men to South Sudan. Instead, Murphy ruled that the eight migrants remain on U.S. territory in Djibouti or be sent back to the U.S. mainland.

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