Supreme Court Issues Controversial Ruling In Immigration Case

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined Gorsuch in the majority opinion

The ruling overturns the decisions of both the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Board of Immigration Appeals, which had previously rejected this interpretation in the case of Monsalvo Velázquez, a 32-year-old Colorado resident ordered for removal in 2019.

While the case mainly depends on procedural technicalities in immigration law, the narrow 5-4 decision may show how the Court could handle upcoming high-profile immigration cases, including those about due process protections for migrants and legal challenges to nationwide injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship ban.