Two liberal Supreme Court justices said they would have granted a stay to prevent a 7-year-old migrant’s removal from the U.S., while the Court's majority voted to deny the request.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have granted the application for a stay, according to the order released on Thursday. Fellow liberal Justice Elena Kagan did not indicate she would grant the application for a stay.

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The child was born in Venezuela and came to the U.S. with her mother in 2021. The mother’s attorneys said they sought asylum and were granted temporary protected status. The father of the child petitioned a federal court for her immediate return to Venezuela in 2023 under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

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