The Trump Justice Department sparked the next major legal battle over his deportation policies Thursday, rushing to the Supreme Court to ask the justices to give a preliminary OK to Homeland Security’s aggressive push to arrest illegal immigrants in Los Angeles.
Lower courts have ruled the roving patrols that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has used to snare illegal immigrants violate the Constitution, sweeping up people that officers didn’t have a reasonable suspicion of being in the country illegally.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the justices that the ruling has muddied the waters, making it unclear what sort of enforcement ICE can carry out and leaving every ICE officer worried that he could face punishment for stopping someone.
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“The injunction wrongly brands countless lawful
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