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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Trump’s Asylum Restrictions Case
By Eleanor Ever Loyal
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday, Nov. 13, to hear the Trump administration’s appeal defending its restrictions on asylum at the southern border, according to reporting by The Hill and NBC News.
The case will put the legality of the administration’s asylum restrictions before the nation’s highest court. NBC News described the policy at issue as the administration’s asylum ban, while The Hill reported that the court had agreed to hear the administration’s appeal defending its restrictions.
The Supreme Court’s decision to take up the case does not itself resolve the dispute. It means the justices will decide whether the administration’s asylum restrictions are lawful.
The issue concerns asylum at the southern border, a matter that will now receive a ruling with national scope. Whatever decision the court ultimately reaches will bind nationally.
The Hill reported Friday that the Supreme Court had agreed to hear the Trump administration’s asylum restrictions case. NBC News separately reported that the court had taken up the case concerning what it described as Trump’s asylum ban.
What is clear from Friday’s development is the scope of the question now before the court. The Supreme Court will decide the legality of the Trump administration’s restrictions on asylum at the southern border, and its eventual ruling will apply nationally.
The case therefore places one of the administration’s border and asylum policies before the Supreme Court for a decision whose effect will extend beyond any single state or lower federal court.
The court’s agreement to hear the appeal marks the beginning of that Supreme Court review, rather than a ruling on the merits. The legality of the restrictions remains the question the justices have agreed to decide.
Eleanor Ever Loyal
National Desk, The Library Media
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