"SCOTUS has basically just allowed a lone Trump-appointed judge in Texas the power to tell a president what immigration priorities it can and can't enforce. Crazy."In what one immigration campaigner blasted as"a radical, unprecedented decision," the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration from resuming a policy limiting migrant deportations.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined liberal justices Elena Kagan, Sonya Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in saying they would have granted the administration's request. It was Jackson's first public vote since joining the court., in December. "SCOTUS has basically just allowed a lone Trump-appointed judge in Texas the power to tell a president what immigration priorities it can and can't enforce,"Reichlin-Melnick noted that"the Supreme Court repeatedly granted the Trump administration emergency relief in situations that were far less extreme than this order."This is a radical decision that makes clear that the Supreme Court is picking favorites, and it's not the Biden [Justice Department].