Supreme Court Rejects Republican Bid to Revive Trump’s ‘Public Charge’ Rule
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a motion filed by Republican state attorneys general to resurrect former President Donald Trump’s “public charge” immigration rule that enabled new restrictions on immigrants who receive some form of government aid.
The high court, in its order (pdf), left open the possibility for the attorneys general to try again at a later time, saying that the states can raise arguments before lower courts and return to the Supreme Court if needed.
President Joe Biden’s administration formally rescinded the Trump-era rule last month, sparking the lawsuit from the attorneys general.
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Immigration, a public charge, and tax tyranny! On January 25th, 2020, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Trump Administrations public charge rule, allowing it to take effect. The rule, designed to protect American taxpayers from having to finance the economic needs of millions of immigrants flooding into the United States made it more difficult for them to acquire a green card and permanent residency should they use, or were found likely to use, taxpayer financed benefits such as food stamps, public housing and Medicaid, and thus becoming a public charge.
And why not have such a rule? As far back as our colonial period, laws were enacted to prohibit the immigration of individuals who might become a public charge. One such law forbid
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David Gifford, Chief Medical Officer, the American Health Care Association
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Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration
Rochelle Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
In response to a Justice Department request, the Supreme Court dismissed a case on 9 March concerning a Trump-era rule rendering it more difficult for immigrants to.