Trump administration asks US Supreme Court to endorse immigration detention policy
Key takeaways
- President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the U.S.
- The administration is asking the Supreme Court to review a ruling by a 2-1 panel of the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S.
- Two other appeals courts have endorsed the administration’s policy, a fact U.S.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it detain people arrested in its immigration crackdown without a chance to seek bond, even if they have lived in the country for years.
The administration made that request in a filing, opens new tab made public on Friday, asking the Supreme Court to overturn a May decision by a federal appeals court, which had rejected its reinterpretation of a decades-old immigration law that now underlies its mass detention policy.
The administration filed the appeal earlier this week, before the 6-3 conservative majority court handed it a pair of major wins on immigration policy on Thursday, including by allowing it to strip hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants of protections against deportation.