Judge Brian Murphy has been a consistent thorn in the side of the current Trump Administration.
But earlier today, this ‘liberal activist district court judge’ (Karoline Leavitt’s own words — I’ll show you that clip shortly!) AGAIN had his ruling struck down.
And that’s a huge win for the Trump Administration’s ability to get back to rapid deportations.
If you remember, this is the judge who has a particular problem when President Trump tries to deport illegals to a “third nation”.
In other words, Murphy argues that the DHS only has limited capacity in it’s authority under the Executive Branch to remove those who are in the country unlawfully.
Specifically, he doesn’t like it when the illegals — who came here illegally — don’t get their say-so on where they end up after the U.S. kicks them out.
Here’s a recap in which we covered Murphy’s most recent dustup with the Trump Administration when it started a few weeks ago.
I took special delight highlighting the Supreme Court’s REPEATED smackdown of his judicial activism in this earlier story:
President Trump’s Deportation Policy Hits Major Roadblock After New Ruling
But as AG Pam Bondi pointed out a short while ago, a “new legal victory” just dropped right on Judge Murphy’s head. (Murphy’s law? I’ll see myself out…)
New legal victory: the First Circuit just ruled that the Trump Administration can CONTINUE deporting illegal aliens to third countries.
There is more work ahead on this important issue, but this is a key win for @POTUS’s immigration agenda.@thejusticedept attorneys will…
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) March 16, 2026
The funny part about this rebuke is that it hasn’t even made it to the Supreme Court, yet.
But on top of that… even a Biden-appointed judge was willing to stand up for President Trump’s authority on this issue!
But, don’t get TOO excited.
There were two Biden-appointed judges on the panel of three.
And only one sided with the Trump Administration alongside the third judge in today’s rebuttal of Murphy’s order, as was reported a short time ago by Reuters:
A 2-1 panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the administration’s request to pause U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy’s February 25 ruling that declared the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s policy unlawful while the government pursues an appeal.
In asking for Murphy’s “fatally flawed” ruling to be stayed, the administration noted it twice before convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the case and was ready to ask the justices to do so again if the appeals court did not act.
“The district court’s order creates an unworkable scheme that materially impairs the ability of the government to enforce the immigration laws,” Justice Department lawyers wrote.
They said the court would hold oral argument after expedited briefing in the case is complete in mid-April. U.S. Circuit Judge Lara Montecalvo, a Biden appointee, dissented and said she would have denied the administration’s stay request.
A DHS spokesperson in a statement said the 1st Circuit had vindicated the agency, which “must be allowed to execute its lawful authority and remove illegal aliens to a country willing to accept them.”
Before I forget, I promised to bring you Karoline Leavitt’s epic takedown of Judge Murphy’s ‘liberal activist’ ways.
But keep in mind, this clip isn’t even in relation to the most recent injunction!
This comes from one of his PREVIOUS attempts to pull the exact same legal stunt against DHS deportations in June of last year!
The Supreme Court would later put him in his place for his trouble.
But not before the White House Press Secretary ripped him and his legal standing to shreds, first:
We warned you this would happen.
Radical liberal district court judges massively overreached and endangered American law enforcement officers to protect illegal alien murderers, rapists, and pedophiles.
This HAS to stop.
(From the White House Press Briefing on May 22, 2025)… https://t.co/cQY2NssycJ pic.twitter.com/9azmAxnxc8
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) June 5, 2025
In his most recent attempt at thwarting President Trump’s deportation plan, Murphy issued a ruling that was more than 80 pages in total.
No, that’s not a typo.
I guess he really had a lot he wanted to get off his chest.
In that long and exhaustive ruling, Murphy argued that the Trump Administration had a duty to exhaust all efforts at deporting illegals to their home country before looking at secondary options.
Hilariously, the DOJ lawyers emphasized in their appeal the dual slap down Murphy’s previous attempts had received from the Supreme Court, as was covered in this report by Fox News:
Trump administration lawyers had appealed the ruling to the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals last week, arguing that the order from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy created an “unworkable scheme” that threatened to derail sensitive negotiations with outside countries, and risked derailing up to “thousands” of planned deportations.
They also argued Murphy’s ruling cut against two previous Supreme Court emergency stays last year, after the high court intervened and allowed the administration to continue its deportation policy, for now.
The case is all but certain to be punted to the high court for a full review on its merits, as senior Trump administration officials acknowledged earlier this year.
Murphy, a Biden appointee, sided with migrants last month in his 81-page ruling, determining that the Department of Homeland Security’s third-country removal process — or the process by which migrants are removed from the U.S. to a country other than their country of origin — is unlawful and violates due process protections under the U.S. Constitution.
He ruled that the Trump administration must first try to deport the migrants to their home country, or to a country of removal previously designated by an immigration judge. Only after that process, he said, could migrants be removed to a third country, so long as “meaningful notice” is provided, as well as the opportunity for the migrants to raise any fear of persecution in the third country identified for their removal under a so-called “reasonable fear” interview. (Emphasis added.)
Today’s decision from the Appeals Court in Boston means that Murphy’s attempts to put the ‘rights’ of non-citizens before those of Americans has been squashed.
But, squashed permanently?
Any judge who consistently shows the audacity to bring virtually the SAME RULING, again and again, that the Supreme Court has already struck down… surely has the audacity to keep going.
He has certainly proven himself capable of bringing a FOURTH ruling, right in the face of the Supreme Court — wouldn’t you say?
At this point, he has essentially made a career of trying to thwart the President!
Thankfully, Trump has made it his job not to let a “liberal activist district court judge” rule in place of the duly elected President.
My bet is… we haven’t heard the last from Judge Murphy, OR the infamous ‘Murphy’s Law’ that so appropriately shares his name.
But for now — wait, what’s that sound — is that the sound of jet engines warming up to fly illegals to WHEREVER necessary to uphold a strong US border and immigration policy?
Or… is that the sound of Judge Murphy furiously scribbling out another 80+ page diatribe against the Trump Administration?
Both, likely. It could absolutely be BOTH.
