Jurisprudence
June 17, 20265:40 AM
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The end of this Supreme Court term may be in sight, but on Monday the high court announced that next term it would take up a case about just how long Immigration and Customs Enforcement can keep lawful permanent residents in immigration detention without any opportunity to post a bond. The federal government has been behaving like the answer is: “As long as they want.” Presumably emboldened by the Supreme Court’s ongoing hostility to the rights of immigrants, the government has asked the Supreme Court to rule that when a person is in detention with deportation proceedings pending, that person can be denied a bond hearing for the entirety of their detention, which could be months or even years. And given the American Civil Liberties Union’s attempts to get the court not to hear this specific case, it’s clear that immigrants nationwide risk heading toward the loss of another constitutional right.
