In order to give immigration officials more leeway in the case of deportations, US President Biden issues a new regulation in migration policy. However, the Supreme Court is now stopping the regulation. Biden has also recently suffered two defeats when it comes to climate policy and abortion rights.
The US Supreme Court has put another damper on President Joe Biden and has now put the brakes on his migration policy. The Supreme Court upheld the stay of a measure by the Biden administration that gave US immigration officials more discretion over deportations. The directive had been the subject of court disputes in various states.
The Department of Homeland Security announced in September that ICE should focus on deporting migrants who threaten national security. The agency is responsible for arresting illegal immigrants.
The decision of the Supreme Court was extremely narrow with five to four votes. The conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett voted with the three liberal judges against putting the measure on hold. The case is now due to be heard in Washington court in December. It was only at the end of June that the Supreme Court strengthened Biden’s migration policy and ruled that he had duly ended a controversial migration rule from the tenure of his predecessor Donald Trump.
In terms of climate policy and abortion law, however, the highest court in the United States recently dealt Biden two sensitive defeats. Just a few weeks ago, the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion that had existed for almost 50 years. Since there is no statewide law protecting the right, the legislature rests with the states.
In Georgia, the federal appeals court recently ruled that the so-called heartbeat law could go into effect immediately. Accordingly, women in the state are no longer allowed to terminate their pregnancy as soon as the heartbeat of the fetus has been determined.
