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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJustice Sotomayor warns the Supreme Court is doing special favors for the Trump administration
The ordinary rules no longer apply when the Trump administration shows up in court.https://www.vox.com/2020/2/22/21148529/justice-sotomayor-supreme-court-wolf-cook-county-public-charge-thumb-on-scale
The Supreme Court voted along ideological lines Friday evening to allow a Trump administration rule restricting low-income immigrants ability to enter the US to take full effect. All four of the Courts Democratic appointees dissented, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing a sharply worded dissenting opinion accusing her Court of putting a thumb on the scale in favor of the Trump administration.
It is hard to say what is more troubling, Sotomayor wrote. That the government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it.
The Courts decision in Wolf v. Cook County is a significant development in and of itself because of its potential impact on millions of immigrants. Last August, the Trump administration announced a new rule governing who would be classified as a public charge essentially someone reliant on government aid programs and thus potentially unable to enter the United States, extend their visa, or obtain a green card. The new rule gives immigration officials leeway to turn away immigrants deemed likely to be a public charge, based on a wide range of factors including use of certain public benefits and English language skills.
As much as 69 percent of the more than 5 million individuals who received a green card over the past five years have at least one negative factor against them under the new rule, and thus might have been denied immigration benefits had the new rule been in effect.
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Justice Sotomayor warns the Supreme Court is doing special favors for the Trump administration (Original Post)
Celerity
Feb 2020
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. The Justice may be looking ahead at the docket
denverbill
(11,489 posts)2. Pretty sad. We let in corrupt, murdering billionaires and keep out people in dire need of rescue.
Of course, we also used to send aid to countries suffering food shortages. Now we embargo them until their citizens are starving and desperate because they nationalized an oil company.
We are a true beacon to the world.