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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToday in Shadow Docket Hell, the Supreme Court is considering whether a Trump judge could
seize command and control of ICE from the Biden administration.Vox
Are federal law enforcement officers under the command and control of elected officials, or are they free to enforce the law as they choose, targeting the people they want to target, without guidance from an elected leader?
Thats the fundamental question in United States v. Texas, a case that just arrived at the Supreme Court on its shadow docket. It asks whether the Biden administration can instruct federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to follow certain enforcement priorities when deciding which undocumented immigrants to apprehend and remove from the country.
Anyone with even a passing familiarity with federal immigration law will be baffled that this issue required litigation, much less that it needs to be resolved by the Supreme Court. Federal law provides that the secretary of Homeland Security shall be responsible for establishing national immigration enforcement policies and priorities. Thus, immigration enforcement agencies such as ICE are under the control of a senior political official who is responsible to an elected president.
Pursuant to this authority, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a memo to ICEs acting director last September, informing him that the agency should prioritize its enforcement efforts against undocumented or otherwise removable immigrants who pose a threat to national security, public safety, and border security and thus threaten Americas well-being.
Not long after Mayorkas issued this memo, however, the Republican attorneys general of Texas and Louisiana went to Drew Tipton, a Trump judge known for handing down legally dubious decisions blocking the Biden administrations immigration policies, asking Tipton to declare Mayorkass memo unlawful. Tipton obliged, and his decision was embraced by an especially right-wing panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Now, the Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to stay Tiptons decision, temporarily restoring an elected administrations control over federal law enforcement while this case proceeds.
Thats the fundamental question in United States v. Texas, a case that just arrived at the Supreme Court on its shadow docket. It asks whether the Biden administration can instruct federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to follow certain enforcement priorities when deciding which undocumented immigrants to apprehend and remove from the country.
Anyone with even a passing familiarity with federal immigration law will be baffled that this issue required litigation, much less that it needs to be resolved by the Supreme Court. Federal law provides that the secretary of Homeland Security shall be responsible for establishing national immigration enforcement policies and priorities. Thus, immigration enforcement agencies such as ICE are under the control of a senior political official who is responsible to an elected president.
Pursuant to this authority, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a memo to ICEs acting director last September, informing him that the agency should prioritize its enforcement efforts against undocumented or otherwise removable immigrants who pose a threat to national security, public safety, and border security and thus threaten Americas well-being.
Not long after Mayorkas issued this memo, however, the Republican attorneys general of Texas and Louisiana went to Drew Tipton, a Trump judge known for handing down legally dubious decisions blocking the Biden administrations immigration policies, asking Tipton to declare Mayorkass memo unlawful. Tipton obliged, and his decision was embraced by an especially right-wing panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Now, the Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to stay Tiptons decision, temporarily restoring an elected administrations control over federal law enforcement while this case proceeds.
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Today in Shadow Docket Hell, the Supreme Court is considering whether a Trump judge could (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Jul 2022
OP
Their goal: Single, fascist party rule without the inconvenience of elections or laws
Hermit-The-Prog
Jul 2022
#1
Yeah, there needs to be some guardrails around the SC ... this is getting stupid
uponit7771
Jul 2022
#2
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,355 posts)1. Their goal: Single, fascist party rule without the inconvenience of elections or laws
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)2. Yeah, there needs to be some guardrails around the SC ... this is getting stupid
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)3. They ought to be disbanded if they dare allow that crap. Declare martial law and void their powers.