A coalition of Democratic-run cities asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to halt a June ruling in a federal court that would block a Biden administration immigration rule allowing judges to close deportation proceedings indefinitely, after the Trump administration declined to defend the rule.
Texas officials sued the federal government over the rule in June, but hours after the lawsuit was filed, the Department of Justice said it agreed with Texas that the rule should be set aside, leading U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, a nominee of former President George W. Bush, to enter a final consent judgment tossing the rule. A coalition of Democratic cities, led by Baltimore, has attempted to intervene in the lawsuit seeking to defend the Biden-era rule but has been unsuccessful, leading them to the Supreme Court.
