( September 30, 2026, 8:53 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court majority on Sept. 29 granted an application by federal government parties and stayed a February ruling by a federal court in Massachusetts that declared the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s March 2025 third-country removals policy “unlawful”; the high court also treated the application by DHS and others as a petition for a writ of certiorari, granted it and directed the parties to provide briefs addressing jurisdiction, classwide declaratory relief and the lawfulness of the federal government’s guidance....