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Supreme Court turns away from states' appeal in 'public charge rule,' citing 'mare's nest' of legal issues
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The Supreme Court opted not to rule on whether 13 states could properly intervene to defend the "public charge rule" after the Biden administration declined to do so.
A number of Democrat-leaning states and cities, including San Francisco, had refused to enforce the Trump policies on public charge, and had brought their own lawsuits. After President Biden took office, his administration opted not to defend the rule, then repealed it by relying on a lower court ruling in a separate case as a reason for why they did not have to go through the standard notice and comment period.
"These maneuvers raise a host of important questions. The most fundamental is whether the Government’s actions, all told, comport with the principles of administrative law," Chief Justice Roberts wrote in an opinion concurring with the court’s decision. "But bound up in that inquiry are a great many issues beyond the question of appellate intervention on which we granted certiorari[.]"