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Breaking: SCOTUS Votes 8-1 to Sustain Trump’s Remain in Mexico Policy

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The US Supreme Court is getting tired of this, to be sure. Emergency stay requests are at a historical high. But then, so are the number of ridiculously partisan lower court rulings that cause them. The latest being the Remain in Mexico Policy.

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The Supreme Court granted a reprieve Wednesday for the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, preserving — for now — the key tool that allowed the government to solve last year’s border crisis.

The justices issued a stay on a lower court ruling that would have dissolved the policy, officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocol, in Arizona and California. The court said the stay would remain in place to give the administration time to argue its case before the high court.

Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor (the Wise Latina) refused the request. We’ve no idea if she actually believes the government has the right to enforce such a policy or if she’s got had it with all these emergency stay requests. She’s no fan of Trump and is on the record objecting to the number of requests. A matter we addressed here and summed up succinctly by Sen Ted Cruz who likened her complaint to, “an arsonist complaining about the noise from the fire trucks.”

If lower courts stopped issuing nationwide injunctions the executive branch could refrain from pestering the Highest Court in the land regarding lower court misconduct.

If Justice Sotomayor would like to see fewer challenges to lower court injunctions outside their jurisdiction, she should begin with the courts that issue them. Otherwise, she’ll have to get used to emergency stay requests because the branch responsible for enforcing the law seems intent on doing just that until congress changes the laws, which the Trump Administration has asked it to do but it has declined to address.

The stay keeps the existing policy in force while the lawsuits are litigated and a formal supreme court decision is delivered.

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