The Justice Department returned to the Supreme Court Tuesday to ask the justices to clarify their order allowing deportations of illegal immigrants to “third countries” for now, one day after a district judge said a group of illegal immigrants were still barred from being deported to South Sudan despite the high court’s order.

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to clarify a decision Monday that paved the way for the government to quickly deport criminal immigrants to "third countries."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s senior liberal, slammed the Trump administration’s handling of immigration matters in a fiery dissent Monday and accused her colleagues of “rewarding lawlessness” by backing its latest emergency appeal.