Earlier this year, a Biden-appointed federal judge issued an injunction which blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of foreign criminals to South Sudan.

Yet in a move which has left President Donald Trump smiling, the Supreme Court moved late last week to overturn the injunction. 

Supreme Court previously stayed injunction

According to The Hill, that decision came in the form of an unsigned seven to two ruling which America's highest judicial body put out this past Thursday.

"The May 21 remedial order cannot now be used to enforce an injunction that our stay rendered unenforceable," it concluded.

The Hill noted how the announcement came after U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy insisted that his injunction was still in effect. This was despite the fact that the Supreme Court had already issued a stay on its enforcement.

The majority's decision was met with a dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor which was also joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Sotomayor says favoritism is being shown to the Trump administration

"The Court’s continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible," Sotomayor was quoted as writing.

The Obama-appointed justice then went on to accuse the Supreme Court conservative majority of showing favoritism towards the Trump administration.

She alleged that Thursday's ruling "clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."

Meanwhile, The Hill cited a statement released by the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, which represents those whom the Trump administration wishes to deport.

"The Supreme Court’s order rewards the government for violating the preliminary injunction in this case and for delaying provision of the due process protections that the district court ordered, which included a determination on whether they had a reasonable fear of being persecuted or tortured there," it alleged.

Deportees have convictions for homicide and child sexual abuse

As Breitbart noted, the controversy arose after the home countries of eight foreign convicted criminals refused to take them back following their prison sentences.

They include Enrique Arias-Hierro, who was convicted of homicide, armed robbery, kidnapping, and impersonation of an official.

Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, Thongxay Nilakout, Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, and Tuan Thanh Phan also have homicide convictions while Kyaw Mya and Nyo Myint are guilty of child sex crimes.

The deportees are being kept at a United States military base located in the East African nation of Djibouti while their case is litigated.