Supreme Court rebuffs GOP bid to revive Trump’s ‘public charge’ rule

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The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a bid by Republican state attorneys general to revive former President Trump‘s “public charge” rule.

The rule, which the Biden administration formally rescinded last month, tightened restrictions on poorer immigrants seeking U.S. residency.

A group of red-state attorneys general, led by Texas’s Ken Paxton, had moved earlier this year to intervene in a case out of Illinois, where a district court judge had vacated the rule nationwide. That move came after the Biden administration had dropped its appeal of the ruling, effectively allowing the public charge rule to die. Continue reading.