In the 44-page filing, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued that the states wrongly wished to keep the policy in place “as a makeshift immigration-control measure.”
19 GOP-led states filed an “eleventh hour” emergency appeal to Title 42.There have been multiple calls to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas amid the migrant crisis.“But the solution to that immigration problem cannot be to extend indefinitely a public-health measure that all now acknowledge has outlived its public-health justification.”
Roberts had given the Biden administration until 5 p.m. to respond to the states after he temporarily stayed a federal court The chief justice can now either deny the states’ application on his own, or — more likely — refer the matter to the full court for consideration.
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