As Joe Biden was campaigning back in 2020, he made a number of major promises to his would-be constituents, some of which he must have known he could not follow through with. But, then again, this is the sort of thing that Democratic politicians do, right?
At the crux of the Biden campaign was this idea that he was simply going to undo a great many of Donald Trump’s policies, with much of the marketing campaign surrounding Biden painting him as the “anti-Trump”. It truly felt as though the Democrats believed that this was all they would need to do to have him elected.
And Biden appeared to not disappoint them, with a flurry of executive actions in his first weeks in office that literally sought to undo a number of Trump’s more popular policies.
This week, however, the Supreme Court pulled the breaks on at least one of these actions.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) denied a plea from President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to halt the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program while a lawsuit brought by Texas and Missouri makes its way through the courts.
On Tuesday evening, in a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS issued an order denying DOJ’s request for the Court to issue a stay that would block the re-implementation of MPP, commonly known as “Remain in Mexico,” while the case plays out in the courts — a process that could take more than a year.
Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, voted to deny the request, while Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan voted to grant the request.
The news comes as the Biden administration continues to take heat for being negligent in regard to the crisis at the border, and as they juggle a number of other catastrophes of their own doing.
