Dem cities urge high court to stop deal ending Biden-era immigration rule
- Dem-run cities, led by Baltimore, beg Supreme Court to resurrect Biden's 'administrative closure' rule after Judge O'Connor deep-sixed it at DOJ's own request.
- Texas sued, DOJ basically shrugged and said 'yeah, we agree, it's garbage,' leaving sanctuary cities holding the bag and running to the highest court in the land.
- The rule let judges indefinitely shelve deportation cases, a dream for overloaded dockets and a nightmare for anyone who thought 'deportation' might actually mean something.
- Cities claim the feds' surrender hurts them by keeping 'community members' in legal limbo—which is rich, since the rule was designed to keep them here without a final verdict.
- SCOTUS is now the designated grown-up in the room asked to decide if a city can crash a lawsuit to defend a policy the defendant already admitted was bogus.
Brief Summary
In a move that screams 'we have no other ideas,' a coalition of blue cities—led by Baltimore, the crown jewel of fiscal mismanagement—has petitioned the Supreme Court to block a June ruling that tossed the Biden-era immigration rule allowing judges to indefinitely close deportation cases. The saga began when Texas sued, and the Trump DOJ, showing more common sense than a pacifist at a knife fight, agreed the rule was a legal abomination. Judge O'Connor, a Bush appointee, promptly signed off on a consent judgment killing it, leaving the cities scrambling to intervene and failing miserably at every turn.
Why This Matters
This is your tax dollars at work, folks. These cities want to restore a policy that serves as a bureaucratic black hole for deportation cases, ensuring illegal immigrants stay in legal limbo indefinitely—not deported, not legalized, just... parked. It's a political vampire that refuses to die, and the Supreme Court is being asked to play coroner. If SCOTUS bites, expect the already-comatose immigration enforcement system to be replaced with a lifetime subscription to 'case pending.',