A federal judge in Washington is temporarily blocking the deportation of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan the day after the Supreme Court permitted it to go forward.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Friday from deporting eight foreign nationals to South Sudan, just days after the Supreme Court sided with the administration in a related deportation case.

U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss issued an administrative stay Friday morning temporarily blocking the deportations in response to a lawsuit filed late Thursday night on behalf of the eight men, who have spent the last six weeks in a shipping container on a U.S. military base in Djibouti amid a legal tug-of-war over their fate.