Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy

High court rejects burdensome requirements on frontline border officers

Not any of the ones involving illegal entrants, but a case with important implications nonetheless

Except to the degree it does: ‘Federal courts are not “roving commissions,” licensed to “sally forth each day looking for wrongs to right.”’

Congress could have made everybody’s lives easier if they hadn’t used such vague terms

Expect the justices to send a message to inferior court judges to stay in their statutory lanes

. . . And reins in activist federal judges

District courts appear to ignore a 1984 Supreme Court opinion that immigration officers can’t be expected to “compile elaborate, contemporaneous, written reports detailing the circumstances of every arrest”

A primer on blue slips, filibusters, and an increasingly polarized (and politicized) judiciary