The United States Supreme Court has denied an appeal by the convicted Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk to overturn his deportation order. The court refused to hear the appeal without comment. Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, 88, had argued that immigration judge Michael Creppy did not have the authority to order his deportation. Demjanjuk was stripped of his US citizenship in 1981 and extradited to Israel, where in 1993 a court acquitted him of being the sadistic Treblinka death camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible." He was stripped of his citizenship again in 2002 after new evidence showed he had been a guard at another Nazi camp.
In December 2006, Creppy dismissed an appeal by Demjanjuk to have a deportation order overturned. Demjanjuk denies that he helped the Nazis, claiming he was drafted into the Soviet army and captured by the Germans. Though Demjanjuk's legal fight is now over, it is unlikely that he will be forced to leave the United States since neither Ukraine or Germany will accept him. Demjanjuk, a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, is said to be in ill-health.
