Supreme Court Won’t Lower Bar for Immigration Detainees to Sue Government

Supreme Court Won’t Lower Bar for Immigration Detainees to Sue Government
The Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 21, 2020. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Matthew Vadum
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In a pair of rulings on June 13, the Supreme Court made it harder for those held in immigration detention to bring legal challenges.

In Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez, court file 19-896, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote (pdf) for a unanimous court that the federal government is not required to conduct a bond hearing for noncitizens detained for six months on immigration-related grounds. (Justice Stephen Breyer filed a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.)