The National Archives reports that the Supreme Court dismissed the Trump administration’s pending “sanctuary cities” case after a request from the Biden administration.
According to the report, the Supreme Court’s ruling allows the state to continue to flout federal immigration laws.
The Supreme Court’s move reaffirms Biden’s open-borders immigration policy.
The Supreme Court Tribune, which tracks Supreme Court developments, tweeted, “The Supreme Court just denied three pending ‘petitions for certiorari’ (requests to hear cases) regarding the Trump Administration‘s withholding of funds from so-called sanctuary cities after the Biden Administration filed a petition yesterday.”
In a 2017 executive order, President Trump called on U.S. agencies – including law enforcement and others – to withhold federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions. These jurisdictions are overwhelmingly governed by Democrats.
President Trump’s policy of making federal taxpayer dollars available to state and local governments is contingent on their cooperation with U.S. immigration officials in carrying out their duties as required by federal law.
Before filing suit in the high court, lawyers in several sanctuary jurisdictions found lower courts divided on whether President Trump’s policy was legal.
Once in office, Biden issued a string of executive orders overturning President Trump’s policies. The policy on sanctuary jurisdictions was one of them.
Biden decided to revoke President Trump’s asylum jurisdiction order, and the Justice Department filed letters of request with the Supreme Court to dismiss all cases related to the matter.
The three cases dismissed by the high court involved New York City, San Francisco, and several states, including California and New York.
New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a statement saying, “We are pleased that… We were able to work with the Biden administration to dismiss this case in the Supreme Court.”
A number of users left comments below this National Archives story expressing their views on this approach by the Supreme Court.
One user said: The Supreme Court is completely compromised.
Another said: the word is corruption.
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