Supreme Court Issues Controversial Ruling In Immigration Case

When Congress adopts a new law against the backdrop of a ‘long standing administrative construction,’ the Court generally presumes the new provision works in harmony with what came before,” Gorsuch said

“Since at least the 1950s, immigration regulations have provided that when calculating deadlines, the term ‘day’ carries its specialized meaning by excluding Sundays and legal holidays (and later Saturdays) if a deadline would otherwise fall on one of those days,” Gorsuch added.

He went on to note that the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, passed by Congress, uses the same reading.