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Emergency application

Pausing deportation

Mercy Coffie-Joseph v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General

Denied
No. 24A1222Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice KavanaughFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on June 12, 2025: the lower court's ruling stays in effect while the appeal continues.

Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case.

Filed Ruled 21 days after filing

What's being asked

Mercy Coffie-Joseph asks the Supreme Court to pause her removal from the United States, in a case against Attorney General Pamela Bondi. The record does not explain the dispute behind her removal or describe the Sixth Circuit ruling at issue.

What the Court did

The Court refused emergency help: Justice Kavanaugh denied (turned down) Coffie-Joseph’s request to pause her removal. The denial does not decide who wins the underlying dispute, and the Court did not publish how the justices voted.

Vote not published · 9the order does not say how they voted
  1. Roberts
  2. Thomas
  3. Alito
  4. Sotomayor
  5. Kagan
  6. Gorsuch
  7. Kavanaugh
  8. Barrett
  9. Jackson
The order does not say how any justice voted, as is usual on the emergency docket.
Half of 302 rulings on applications decided without a response came 8 to 28 days after filing, and the median was 14 days; this one was ruled on 21 days after filing.

What it means

This ruling addresses only Coffie-Joseph’s request for temporary relief; it does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The record does not say what continues in the Sixth Circuit, and it lists no related Supreme Court case or argument date.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A1222. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026