By Tierney Sneed, CNN
Several Republican-led states have asked a court to allow them to interfere in a case overturning the Title 42 rule, so states can enforce Trump-era policies that have allowed the deportation of more than a million migrants to the U. S. -Mexico border.
All 15 Republican states filed the request for intervention Monday night after U. S. District Judge filed for intervention in the U. S. District Attorney. U. S. Emmet Sullivan rescinded the policy last week. Sullivan also agreed to a request from Biden’s management to suspend his resolution for five weeks so the administration can prepare to comply.
In their new request for intervention, the Republican-led states pointed to separate litigation they had filed in opposition to the Biden administration’s efforts to end the program, resulting in a separate injunction blocking the termination of Title 42.
“Because the invalidation of Title 42 orders will directly harm the states, they now seek to interfere to offer a defense of Title 42 policy so that its validity can be resolved on merit, rather than a strategic surrender,” they wrote.
The states that will protect the policy are Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. They also asked the court to speed up the timeline for contemplating their request for intervention, proposing a schedule of briefings that would end in early December. They said the timeline would give states time to request emergency intervention from a higher court before Sullivan’s ruling striking down Title 42 takes effect Dec. 21.
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