On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court ruled on the case of Jennings v. Rodriguez. Without getting into the details of the case, this is what Scotus Blog perfectly summarized about the what the court ruled: “The Supreme Court essentially held, many years ago, that detained aliens cannot be held indefinitely for constitutional reason. In this case, the Ninth Circuit used that holding to say that the immigration statutes themselves required bond hearings every six months to avoid indefinite detention. The Court said: That’s not right, the statutes don’t say that. But it remanded for the Ninth Circuit to consider whether the immigrant had valid constitutional claims regarding his detention.”
This is the decision:
And here are some good tweets that explain the reprecussions of the decision, including from Cecillia Wang, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU:
Supreme Court has ruled in @ACLU's Jennings v. Rodriguez case. Reverses 9th Cir (also 2d) reading imm detention statutes to require individual custody hearing after 6 months. But we go back to the lower courts to seek a ruling that the statutes violate the Due Process Clause. /1
— Cecillia Wang (@WangCecillia) February 27, 2018
Before our litigation, people were locked up for years without any hearing, while fighting their deportation cases. Many won, but suffered the loss of jobs, homes while detained without a hearing. /2
— Cecillia Wang (@WangCecillia) February 27, 2018
After winning the rule that you get a hearing after 6 months, 1000s of people were released by immigration judges and showed up for court as ordered. The Due Process Clause doesn't stand for detention without any individualized hearing. We live to fight another day on that. /3
— Cecillia Wang (@WangCecillia) February 27, 2018
BREAKING: #SCOTUS just ruled that immigration officials are authorized to detain certain aliens in the course of immigration proceedings while they determine whether they are lawfully present in the country. See: Jennings v. Rodriguez @latinorebels @LatinoUSA
— Matthew Kolken (@mkolken) February 27, 2018
BREAKING: #SCOTUS holds that immigration officials can detain immigrants without bond hearings while they determine whether they are lawfully present in the country. This is an unfortunate ruling — all immigrant detainees deserve due process. See: #Jennings v. Rodriguez. https://t.co/KYmUi3IBRb
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) February 27, 2018
We lost Jennings v. Rodriguez. Prolonged #immigration #detention with no constitutional limits remains. Horrific day in America. #derechoshumanos #immigrants #injusticia #injustice #resist #immigrationdetention via @scotusblog https://t.co/7H1EO2tACj
— Adina (@abappelbaum) February 27, 2018
