In January, the Supreme Court ruled for the Trump administration, which had asked for permission on the “public charge” rule, banning noncitizens from receiving a green card if the government thought that those noncitizens would rely on public assistance. As Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog wrote, “That ruling put on hold a pair of orders by a federal district court in New York, which had blocked the government from enforcing the rule anywhere in the nation.”
On Friday night, the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration could enforce that rule in Illinois while the federal government goes ahead and appeals a judge’s ruling barring the federal government from enforcing the rule. That ruling prompted leftist justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was nominated for her seat on the court by former President Barack Obama, to attack the five so-called “conservative” judges on the court who gave the Trump administration a 5-4 victory in the case, as being biased in favor of President Trump, writing, “the Court’s recent behavior on stay applications has benefited one litigant over all others.”
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