WASHINGTON — A group of Republican-led states urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to let them join litigation to defend pandemic-related border restrictions, warning a decision otherwise could pave the way for presidents to improperly abandon policies they dislike from their predecessors.
More than a dozen states, including Texas and Arizona, filed a brief that accused the Biden administration of failing to sufficiently defend the so-called Title 42 policy in court in a deliberate effort to rescind the directive outside of the regulatory process.
The court filing is the latest in a lengthy legal saga over the border rule, which was implemented under the Trump administration and allows border agents to turn away asylum-seekers on public health grounds.
