DOJ asks Supreme Court to toss case seeking to keep Trump-era Title 42 immigration policy in place

The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to toss out a case challenging the Biden administration’s decision to end Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy affecting asylum seekers. The DOJ, in a filing late Tuesday, told the Supreme Court that the administration’s move to end the Covid-19 public emergency on May 11 “would render this case moot.” That is because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order regarding Title 42 says the policy should end when the secretary of Health and Human Services’s declaration of a public health emergency from the pandemic expires. The case, set to be argued on March 1 at the court, challenges the Biden administration’s plan to end Title 42, which allowed the United States to quickly deport migrants seeking asylum. Title 42 had been implemented in March 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. Adopted under former President Donald Trump, it allowed the U.S. to boot more than 2 million migrants, most of them at the Mexican border. CNBC Politics Read more of CNBC’s politics coverage: Democratic Rep. Angie Craig assaulted in apartment building elevator, her office says GOP voters pick DeSantis over Trump in hypothetical head-to-head matchup for 2024 presidential nomination, new poll shows Biden’s billionaire tax is ‘dead on arrival’ in Congress, top Wall Street backers and Democratic strategists say Chinese spy balloon carried ‘multiple antennas’ for collecting signals intelligence, State Dept. says Watch live: Senate holds first hearing on the suspected Chinese spy balloon Watch live: Senate Foreign Affairs Committee holds a hearing on U.S.-China policy and competition Biden proposal to cap all insulin prices at $35 a month has little chance of passing Congress Biden’s State of the Union may not help potential 2024 election bid against Trump, experts say U.S. explores working with India to increase economic competition against China, says Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Spy balloon confirms ‘pattern of Chinese behavior’ that poses threat to NATO members, Stoltenberg says View More In a case brought by asylum seekers trying to overturn Title 42, a federal judge ruled in November that the policy violated federal law and was “arbitrary and capricious.” A group of Republican state attorneys general have asked to intervene in the case to defend Title 42. The Supreme Court in December ordered the policy to remain in place as it considered whether the states have the legal standing to sue over Title 42. In its filing Tuesday, lawyers for the DOJ wrote, that question will no longer be “a live case or controversy” because of the automatic expiration of Title 42 that would occur once the public health emergency ends. “The government has also recently announced its intent to adopt new Title 8 policies to address the situation at the border once the Title 42 orders end,” the filing said. For more information, visit us at http://www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com/index.html.