Supreme Court agrees to weigh in on legal fight over the "Remain in Mexico" border policy
CBSN
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would weigh in on a legal battle between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" border policy, which was reinstated in a limited fashion in December due to a lower court order.
Granting a request by the Justice Department, the high court agreed to hold oral arguments in April on a lawsuit filed by Texas and Missouri that required the Biden administration to reverse its decision to end the "Remain in Mexico" protocols, which require migrants to wait for their asylum hearings outside of the U.S.
The case is part of a broader legal feud between the federal government and Texas, which has filed multiple lawsuits seeking to block immigration policies enacted under President Biden, a Democrat who denounced the Trump administration's border policy as draconian and inhumane.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.