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Trump's unusual legal gambit against Biden-era deportation rule pays off at Supreme Court

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Fox News · collected 2026-10-28 · by Robert Schmad

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The Supreme Court has allowed a lower court ruling to stand, which eliminates a 2024 immigration rule established by the Biden administration that permitted certain deportation proceedings to be temporarily paused through "administrative closure." Texas and the Department of Justice agreed in June to vacate this rule, leading three cities with large immigrant populations and an advocacy group to argue they should have standing to intervene and defend the rule. The Supreme Court’s decision does not include any noted dissents but upholds Judge Reed O’Connor's ruling against allowing these entities to challenge the agreement.
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The Supreme Court declined on October 27, 2026, to restore a Biden-era policy that allowed immigration judges to use their discretion to temporarily pause deportation proceedings for migrants. Known as "administrative closure," the regulation enabled judges to halt removal cases while migrants sought humanitarian protections or other legal status in the U.S. Texas had sued the federal government in June 2026, arguing that the rule was adopted without proper authority. The Department of Justice then agreed with Texas and asked a judge to eliminate this rule, which led to a lower court ruling against it. This decision now stands without objection from the Supreme Court, leaving the Biden-era policy effectively dismantled.

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📰 Trump Wins At Scotus On Deportation Rule
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Topics

Centro Legal de la Raza Texas The Supreme Court The Supreme Court's the Department of Justice

Subjects

Biden PERSON · 5× Texas GPE · 5× Centro Legal de la Raza ORG · 2× The Supreme Court ORG · 2× the Department of Justice ORG · 2× DOJ ORG · 1× George W. Bush PERSON · 1× Reed O’Connor PERSON · 1× The Supreme Court's ORG · 1× the Justice Department ORG · 1×

Narrative

The Biden administration adopted the rule in 2024, formally establishing procedures for immigration judges to temporarily pause certain deportation proceedings through a practice known as "administrative closure," including when migrants were pursuing immigration relief through other federal proceedings.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-31
🔮 The cities argued that eliminating the rule could lead to residents being deported, reducing their tax revenues and giving them legal standing to challenge the agreement.
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Trump's unusual legal gambit against Biden-era deportation rule pays off at Supreme Court · assertive framing

Claims (12 extracted, 2 hedged)

The Supreme Court, with no noted dissents, has allowed an agreement between Texas and the Department of Justice ending a Biden-era immigration rule to go into effect. asserted
agreement → note → effect
The Biden administration adopted the rule in 2024, formally establishing procedures for immigration judges to temporarily pause certain deportation proceedings through a practice known as "administrative closure," including when migrants were pursuing immigration relief through other federal proceedings. asserted
migrants → adopt → proceedings
The Supreme Court's move leaves in place a lower court ruling eliminating that rule, stripping away a procedure that allowed certain deportation cases to be put on hold. asserted
cases → leave → hold
Texas sued the federal government in June, arguing that the rule was adopted without proper legal authority. asserted
rule → sue → authority
The Department of Justice agreed with Texas, asking the judge overseeing the case to vacate the rule and prevent similar rules from being adopted in the future. asserted
Department → agree → future
Opponents accused Texas and the Justice Department of colluding to eliminate the Biden-era rule, arguing that the two sides worked together despite being on opposite sides of the lawsuit. asserted
sides → accuse → lawsuit
On the same day the DOJ made its request, District Judge Reed O’Connor, an appointee of President George W. Bush, granted it. asserted
O’Connor → make → it
In August, however, three cities with large immigrant populations — Baltimore, Maryland; New Haven, Connecticut; and Columbus, Ohio — joined with Centro Legal de la Raza, an immigrant legal advocacy group, in an effort to intervene in the case and defend the Biden-era rule on appeal. asserted
cities → join → appeal
The cities argued that eliminating the rule could lead to residents being deported, reducing their tax revenues and giving them legal standing to challenge the agreement. uncertain
residents → argue → agreement
O’Connor rejected that argument. asserted
O’Connor → reject → argument
On Oct. 9, the three cities and Centro Legal de la Raza asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block the lower court's judgment while their appeal proceeded, accusing Texas and the federal government of engaging in "egregious collusion" to eliminate the Biden-era rule. asserted
appeal → ask → rule
Federal lawyers argued that the cities and their allies lacked legal standing to challenge the agreement because they had not demonstrated the concrete injury required for a federal court to consider their claims. uncertain
court → argue → claims
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