TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 16, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed an effort by Republican attorneys general to mount a legal defense of a Trump-era immigration restriction that the Biden administration has since rescinded and declined to defend in court. The case was procedural in nature, The Hill reports, but at its heart was the so-called “public charge rule.” The 2019 rule imposed additional restrictions on poorer immigrants until the Biden administration ended the policy last year. The justices’ decision leaves in place a lower appeals court decision that went against the attorneys general.