The Supreme Court is wrestling with a dispute over a Biden administration policy that would prioritize deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with a politically tinged dispute over a Biden administration policy that would prioritize deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.
On Tuesday, the administration's top Supreme Court lawyer told the justices that federal law does “not create an unyielding mandate to apprehend and remove" every one of the more than 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally. Chief Justice John Roberts was among the conservative justices who pushed back strongly on the Biden administration's arguments. “It's our job to say what the law is, not whether or not it can be possibly implemented or whether there are difficulties there, and I don't think we should change that responsibility just because Congress and the executive can't agree on something ... I don't think we should let them off the hook,” he said.
In a separate ongoing legal dispute, three judges chosen by then-President Donald Trump are among the four Republican-appointed judges who have so far prevented the administration's student loan cancellation program from taking effect. In July, the court voted 5-4 to leave the immigration policy frozen nationwide. Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three liberals in saying they would have allowed the Biden administration to put in place the guidance.
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