The Supreme Court denied the Biden administration’s attempt to revive Homeland Security’s new rules limiting which illegal immigrants can be targeted for arrest or deportation, but the justices said Thursday they will speed the case onto their calendar for a full hearing later this year.
President Biden’s team had lost in lower courts, with judges ruling Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas cut legal corners and violated immigration law in carving whole categories of illegal immigrants out of danger of deportation.
Mr. Biden’s lawyers had asked the justices to stay the lower court decision while the case was argued, but a divided Supreme Court rejected that.