The successful campaign to make a terrifying Supreme Court immigration case disappear
If you felt a gust of wind late on Friday, it came from hundreds of immigration lawyers who simultaneously exhaled after the Supreme Court announced it would not hear a case known as Genalo v. Black. That case asked whether certain immigrants could be held in immigration detention facilities indefinitely without ever receiving a bond […]
Immigration lawyers breathed a collective sigh of relief on Friday when the Supreme Court announced it would not hear a case known as Genalo v. Black. This case questioned whether certain immigrants could be held indefinitely in detention without ever receiving a bond hearing. The two men at the center of the case, Carol Williams Black and Keisy Guerrero Mariano, had both already served prison sentences for prior crimes before being arrested.
They argued that indefinite detention violated their constitutional rights. If the Supreme Court had decided this case, it would have indicated that most justices may have supported indefinite detention. Both men lost their legal battle, with Black being released and Guerrero Mariano receiving a pardon from New York Governor Kathy Hochul, thereby removing the basis for his detention.
The Supreme Court's decision not to hear this case leaves uncertainty for similar situations in the future.
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