The Trump administration is escalating its legal battle over a disputed immigration policy by seeking Supreme Court intervention to overturn a lower court ruling that blocked it. The move comes as part of efforts to enforce a plan allowing deportations to countries other than those immigrants originally fled, aligning with broader deportation priorities. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the Justice Department’s appeal, framing it as necessary to uphold the policy amid ongoing legal challenges. The conservative-leaning Supreme Court could now play a decisive role in determining whether the measure proceeds.
US attorney general Todd Blanche says justice department will ask high court for help after lower court rejected policyThe Trump administration will ask the US supreme court to allow it to deport immigrants to countries other than their own, the latest effort to seek approval for a controversial policy that fulfils Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.Todd Blanche, the US attorney general, said on Thursday that the Department of Justice would ask the conservative-majority supreme court for help, nearly a week after a lower court judge rejected the policy. Continue reading...
