The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that higher courts must stop ruling on immigration cases that have been adjudicated by Immigration Judges in asylum cases. Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the ruling, stating, “the agency’s determination whether a given set of undisputed facts rises to the level of persecution under §1101(a)(42)(A) is generally ‘conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.’”
The ruling puts a significant limit on district courts, especially, which have been interfering with an inordinate number of asylum cases. Many of these judges are from the batch of judges the GOP lazily allowed to be approved during the last weeks of the Biden administration.
SCOTUS unanimously rules courts MUST defer to immigration judges in asylum cases – The Post Millennial
The court was unanimous in its ruling.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that federal appeals courts must defer to immigration judges when reviewing asylum decisions. The case centered around asylum claims made by Salvadoran national Douglas Humberto Urias-Orellana and his family, with Urias-Orellana arguing that a hitman had been targeting him in his home country.
The court’s ruling, written by Biden-appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, stated that immigration laws require federal courts to use a “substantial-evidence standard” when reviewing immigration judges’ decisions regarding whether an asylum seeker would face “persecution” if deported from the country.
Jackson noted that courts must meet a high bar before overturning an immigration judge’s findings. “the agency’s determination whether a given set of undisputed facts rises to the level of persecution under §1101(a)(42)(A) is generally ‘conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.’”