Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from ending the pandemic-era Title 42 immigration policy leaving in doubt whether officials will continue to expel migrants out of concerns about public health risks.
The decision was the result of the short fuse lit by 19 conservative states that filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court on Monday. The states asked the justices to block a lower court ruling requiring President Joe Biden to end the Title 42 expulsions by midnight.
Roberts ordered the Biden administration to respond to the appeal from the states by 5 p.m. ET Tuesday, a rapid turnaround by Supreme Court standards.
Though the move may pause what many fearedwould be a new influx of migrants on the southern border, it doesn't necessarily signal which way the high court is leaning on the broader questions about the policy. Roberts, or the court, will likely issue another order in a mater of days.
Title 42 permits Customs and Border Protection to expel migrants without the usual legal review to Mexico or to their home countries to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in holding facilities. The Biden administration announced in April that it intended to wind down the policy.
In November, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, D.C., said the policy's implementation violated federal law and gave the Biden administration until Dec. 21 to end it. Nineteen conservative states, including Texas and Arizona, are trying to intervene and block Sullivan's decision. The states lost in a federal appeals court on Friday and, on Monday, they had taken their request up to the Supreme Court.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/supreme-court-pauses-demise-title-220138436.html
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