The Supreme Court gave President Joe Biden a significant victory after siding with the administration on how to enforce the country's immigration laws. Texas and Louisiana sued to block the guidelines, where the administration sought to prioritize three types of illegal immigrants for arrest and deportation: recent border crossers, threats to public safety, and national security threats. Seems logical? Well, that is why there was an 8-1 ruling in Biden's favor.
USA Today reports:
The 8-1 decision was a rare win for Biden at the conservative Supreme Court and it may have implications for state challenges to policies adopted by future presidents. The legal questions involved in the case are separate from those that created the crisis earlier this year on the Southwest border.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for a five-justice majority that included Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett, wrote an opinion that agreed with the final outcome but for different reasons.
Justice Samuel Alito dissented.
The states, Kavanaugh wrote, "want a federal court to order the executive branch to alter its arrest policies so as to make more arrests. Federal courts have not traditionally not entertained that kind of lawsuit; indeed, the states cite no precedent for a lawsuit like this."
Why does Alito have to be such a dick? Maybe he has to be offered a fancy pants vacation to rule on the non-dick side.
