The Supreme Court allowed a Texas-DOJ agreement to scrap a Biden-era deportation pause rule, rejecting challenges from cities.
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.
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. 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.
Texas sued the federal government in June, arguing that the rule was adopted without proper legal authority.