Supreme Court Sides with Trump in Dispute over Immigration Judges' Speech Restrictions
The justices said the appeals court relied on an argument neither side had made and sent the free-speech dispute back to lower courts.
- On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with President Donald Trump's administration in a dispute involving a free-speech challenge by federal immigration judges to a government policy restricting what they can publicly say about immigration.
- The National Association of Immigration Judges sued in 2020 to block a speech policy introduced under Trump that requires prior approval for 'official' remarks by roughly 750 immigration judges overseeing immigration courts.
- A Virginia-based federal judge dismissed the challenge in 2023 under the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act, but the 4th Circuit last year ordered fact-finding on whether Trump's firing of agency heads compromised their independence, prompting the administration's Supreme Court appeal.
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The policy that sparked the dispute requires immigration judges to obtain prior authorization before making comments deemed "official."
The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration a victory on Tuesday by reversing a lower court ruling against a requirement that immigration judges seek official approval before making speeches in their official capacities. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals intervened last year in the light of President Donald Trump’s dismissal of several heads of agencies responsible for hearing complaints, Reuters reported. The policy comes from the Immigratio…
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Supreme Court sides with Trump in dispute over immigration judges' speech restrictions
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Court sides with Trump administration in dispute over immigration judges, declines to hear Florida suit against other states over immigrant driver’s licenses
The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning reversed a ruling by a federal appeals court that had revived a dispute over a policy governing speaking engagements by immigration judges. In a list of orders from the justices’ private conference last week, the court also declined to serve as the court of first review for Florida’s contention that California and Washington are allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain commercial driver’s licenses.The justi…
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