Posted on 03/06/2020 11:52:21 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Justice Department petitioned the Supreme Court on Friday to preserve the key program that solved last year’s border surge, after a lower court ruled it was illegal.
Known formally as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), and more commonly called “Remain in Mexico,” the policy allows the U.S. to push migrants who entered from Mexico back across the border to wait for their immigration court dates.
About 60,000 migrants had been subjected to MPP.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling last week that MPP was illegal, but stayed the order. On Wednesday, the court gave the Justice Department a week to appeal to the Supreme Court or else the injunction against MPP would take effect.
In its petition to the Supreme Court on Friday the Justice Department said “chaos” erupted after the original 9th Circuit ruling, with large groups of migrants storming border ports of entry demanding immediate entry.
“Relief from this Court is therefore urgently needed,” wrote Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco.
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We better get Schmukie out there on the steps to “advise” the Justices.
I’d be surprised if they do.
They’re all about Process Uber Ales. They’re going to kick it back to the 9th. for an en banc hearing. Meanwhile the injunction will go into place and eight or nine caravans will cross the border while the appeals wind slowly along.
They MAY do a stay on the injunction and send it back for an en banc ruling.
all designed to create more chaos and sob stories at the border during the summer surge to make Trump look bad, along with smuggling in more illegal votes.
Okay, I’ll bite. Exactly WHAT is illegal about keeping aliens on the Mexican side of the border?
Smells like social justice bullsh!t.
Hope you’re wrong, but can’t say that you will be
They MAY do a stay on the injunction and send it back for an en banc ruling.
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I haven’t followed this case too closely but I think this appeal to the Supreme Court is just on the issue of the injunction.
I predict that the Supreme Court stays this order pending the resolution of all appeals
Hans von Spakovsky wrote an excellent, succinct explanation of the many very substantial issues with the 9th Circus’s ruling:
If they knock it down, the flood starts again.
Trump had made great strides in putting conservatives in the 9th Circuit. Unfortunately there are still too many liberals still there and with the bad luck of drawing 2 liberals judges on a judge panel, you get garbage political decisions like this one. Supreme Court if they take the case which they probably will, will reverse it
Indefinite quarantine.
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