The Supreme Court delivered a key victory for President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda this week, allowing federal authorities to continue carrying out raids in California despite efforts by local leaders and activist groups to block them.
In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the high court granted the Trump administration’s request to proceed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Los Angeles County while the case continues in the Ninth Circuit.
The Monday ruling temporarily overturns a lower-court injunction from July that had blocked the raids.
A federal judge had sided with plaintiffs who argued the operations violated the Fourth Amendment, and the Ninth Circuit upheld that order.
The Trump administration appealed directly to the Supreme Court, warning that the injunction effectively paralyzed ICE’s ability to enforce federal immigration law in one of the nation’s largest metro areas.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, blasting the order as “troubling” and accusing the majority of allowing unconstitutional seizures.
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage job,” she wrote.
Reversal of Fortunes in California
The decision comes just after a Democrat-aligned federal judge in California