BREAKING: Supreme Court rules in favor of Biden administration’s prioritizing recent border crossers, threats to public safety for deportation

"The States have brought an extraordinarily unusual lawsuit," wrote Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh for the majority opinion. "They want a federal court to order the Executive Branch to alter its arrest policies so as to make more arrests. Federal courts have not traditionally entertained that kind of lawsuit; indeed, the States cite no precedent for a lawsuit like this."

At the center of the issue was a Biden administration policy set in September of 2021 allowing the Department of Homeland Security to focus on arresting recent border crossers, those who have committed crimes, and suspected terrorists due to the lack of resources to go after the more than 11 million illegal immigrants that could be subject to deportation, according to SCOTUSblog.

"This holding does not suggest that federal courts may never entertain cases involving the Executive Branch’s alleged failure to make more arrests or bring more prosecutions," Kavanaugh wrote.

"There are good reasons why federal courts have not traditionally entertained lawsuits of this kind. For one, when the Executive Branch elects not to arrest or prosecute, it does not exercise coercive power over an individual’s liberty or property, and thus does not infringe upon interests that courts often are called upon to protect," Kavanaugh stated.

"Moreover, such lawsuits run up against the Executive’s Article II authority to decide 'how to prioritize and how aggressively to pursue legal actions against defendants who violate the law.'"

The ruling lifts a lower court ruling that had blocked the policy, stating that it violated federal law. The justices ruled that the states lacked legal standing to challenge the policy shift.

Justice Samuel Alito was the only dissenting justice.