Biden administration asks Supreme Court to intervene in Remain-in-Mexico legal battle
CBSN
The Justice Department on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit that required U.S. border officials to resurrect a Trump administration program that requires migrants to wait in Mexico for their asylum hearings.
Citing "erroneous" decisions by lower courts that mandated the border policy's revival, government lawyers representing the Biden administration said the case should be quickly reviewed by the Supreme Court, urging the conservative-leaning high court to hold oral arguments in April.
At the center of the Justice Department's request are two lower court rulings against the Biden administration's attempts to terminate the so-called Remain-in-Mexico policy, officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP.