WASHINGTON — More than a dozen Republican-led states asked a federal judge Monday night for permission to defend a pandemic-related border directive in court, after the judge struck down the policy and the Biden administration signaled it wouldn’t appeal.
The 15 states, which include frequent immigration litigants Texas and Arizona, have asked Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia if they could intervene in a challenge to the so-called Title 42 policy.
The border restrictions are currently set to end on Dec. 21 to comply with Sullivan’s ruling from last week that sided with immigrant advocates and found that the policy was illegal.
