The U.S. Supreme Court on May 26 sided with the Trump administration in a lawsuit federal immigration judges brought that challenges a federal government policy limiting the judges’ public statements about their jobs.
The nation’s highest court ruled that a federal appeals court violated an important legal principle by ruling on legal issues that the parties themselves had not presented.
The Supreme Court issued a narrow, procedural ruling that did not weigh in on the lawfulness of the restrictive speech policy itself, which remains in effect for the time being.
The new decision took the form of an unsigned order in Margolin v. National Association of Immigration Judges. No justices dissented….Â
Supreme Court Hands DOJ an Initial Win in Dispute Over Immigration Judges’ Speech
