The order supporting the Trump administration was handed down as Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was presiding over President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate. Immigrant groups have protested the rules and denounced the Supreme Court’s action. But Leopold said he worried that “the Supreme Court has become a virtual agency of the Trump administration” on immigration, by allowing the policy to take hold — and potentially harm thousands of people — before it is decided on its merits in court. ADAD“This rule is a huge change in legal immigration without Congress changing a word of the law,” he said. “The Supreme Court just acquiesces to the Trump administration.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2020 18:41 UTC