WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t let the Trump administration begin enforcing a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
New Justice Brett Kavanaugh and three other conservative justices sided with the administration.
The court’s order Friday leaves in place lower court rulings that blocked President Donald Trump’s proclamation in November automatically denying asylum to people who enter the country from Mexico without going through official border crossings.
Trump said he was acting in response to caravans of migrants making their way to the border.
The administration had also complained that the nationwide order preventing the policy from taking effect was too broad.
But Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s four more liberal justices rejected the administration’s suggestion for narrowing it.
Roberts, forced into being the new swing justice?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Ain’t sayin’ there was; nice to see the possibility of it.
There was talk Roberts would be the new swing justice, this seems to give that opinion some credence. Fine with me.
There’s something really sad with a right-wing apparatchik being the swing justice. But it’s better than seeing him vote to ignore the clear letter of the law.