Reportedly the U.S. supreme court gave the go-ahead for one of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies, allowing his administration to implement a rule denying legal permanent residency to certain immigrants deemed likely to require government assistance in the future. Meanwhile the justices, on a 5-4 vote, granted the administration's request to lift a lower court's injunction that had blocked the so-called public charge policy while litigation over its legality continues. The rule has been criticized by immigrant rights advocates as a "wealth test" that would disproportionately keep out non-white immigrants.

 

Furthermore the court's five conservative justices, including Chief Justice john Roberts and two justices appointed by trump, carried the day. The court's four liberal justices said they would have denied the administration's request. Further the action was announced even as Roberts sat as the presiding officer in Trump's impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate. Perhaps Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), praised the high court.

 

Cuccinelli told reporters "It is very clear the U.S. supreme court is fed up with these national injunctions by judges who are trying to impose their policy preferences instead of enforcing the law".

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