TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 22, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to lift a nationwide stay blocking a Biden administration policy on border enforcement priorities, Bloomberg Law reports. The government wants to prioritize the detention and deportation of those who threaten national security, public safety or border security. Several southern states sued to block the policy arguing that all undocumented individuals who cross the border should be considered for detention and deportation. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas found for the states and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld the decision. In her first public vote in a Supreme Court matter, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson voted to let the policy go into effect. The court also agreed to hear the challenge in its next term, scheduling oral arguments for the first week of December.