Supreme Court To Decide Legality Of Trump Administration's ICE Detention Policy

What happened: The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case challenging the Trump administration's expanded mandatory ICE detention policy, reviewing a 2nd Circuit ruling that rejected the administration's interpretation of a 1996 immigration law. Key numbers: More than 460 federal judges rejected ICE detention decisions more than 20,000 times over the past 14 months, per a Why it matters: The ruling could broadly affect ICE's ability to detain illegal immigrants nationwide. Justices will focus on the statute's meaning, not the constitutional questions the Justice Department raised.

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case challenging the Trump administration's expanded mandatory ICE detention policy, reviewing a 2nd Circuit ruling that rejected the administration's interpretation of a 1996 immigration law.

The ruling could broadly affect ICE's ability to detain illegal immigrants nationwide. Justices will focus on the statute's meaning, not the constitutional questions the Justice Department raised.