U.S. Supreme Court,
Immigration,
Constitutional Law,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Dec. 4, 2017
Anyone's guess how justices will rule in immigration case
Regardless of how the Supreme Court decides Jennings v. Rodriguez, there is no doubt that its decision will have a significant impact on the government's growing use of immigration detention.
Philip L. Torrey
Lecturer on Law
Harvard Law School
Email: ptorrey@law.harvard.edu
Philip is the managing attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and the supervising attorney of the Harvard Immigration Project.
OCTOBER 2017 TERM
For the third time in less than two decades, the U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing the federal government's ability detain immigrants for lengthy periods of time while it seeks to deport them. In Jennings v. Rodriguez, the court will consider both statutory and constitutional challenges to the government's authority to detain specific classes of immigrants without providing them a bond hearing to det...
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