The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to halt a lower court’s June ruling that blocked a Biden administration immigration rule allowing judges to close deportation proceedings indefinitely, after the Trump administration opted not to defend the rule.
The high court denied the emergency petition by a coalition of Democrat-run cities seeking to stop the lower court’s ruling with no elaboration and no noted dissent. The case began earlier this year when Texas officials sued the federal government over the rule, and the Department of Justice agreed with the state that the Biden-era rule should be set aside. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, a nominee of former President George W. Bush, entered a final consent judgment tossing the rule, leading a group of Democratic cities, led by Baltimore, to attempt to intervene in the lawsuit to defend it.
