Judge’s middle finger to the Supreme Court shows why Trump wants to move fast on deportations

A sleazy bid by a federal judge to defy the Supreme Court’s decision on Team Trump deportations shows exactly why the ruling was necessary in the first place.

On Monday, the justices stayed a preliminary injunction by District Judge Brian Murphy (a Biden appointee) that had blocked the Trump folks from deporting migrants to countries they didn’t come from without sufficient time to appeal.

That should’ve been an immediate green light for the feds to deport eight criminal migrants to South Sudan, even though seven of the men originate from other countries.  

Yet Murphy flipped the high court a bird, claiming he’d issued a separate order for the men to be held, so the justices’ ruling didn’t apply and Trump & Co. had to keep holding them.

Murphy’s fooling no one: His response was nothing more than a legalistic stalling tactic.

And the use of such tricks is precisely why Team Trump seeks to deport criminal migrants swiftly.

Recall that Donald Trump campaigned on quick, “mass deportations” focused on the worst criminals, and won a decisive victory at the voting booth in November.

But to keep illegal migrants — even violent ones — here as long as possible, the loony left tries to tie up cases in the courts and get favorable rulings from sympathetic judges.

Murphy’s #Resistance shows just how far they’ll go.

The eight men, now being held at US military base in Djibouti, were all convicted of violent crimes, including robbery, sexual assault and murder. Team Trump duly obtained orders of removal.

Yet only South Sudan would take them.

True, South Sudan is unstable — as other nations willing to take heinous illegal migrants off our hands may also be.

But that shouldn’t mean violent criminals from abroad must remain here, placing Americans at risk.

Nor can they be kept on a military base for an extended time, imposing a burden on personnel there.

Trump’s election was a clear triumph over lawfare: Americans don’t approve of prosecutors and judges stretching laws and resorting to legal tricks to get what lefties fail to get democratically.

Judges like Murphy need to end the legal games and obey the law, especially when the order comes from the nation’s highest court.