Trump’s Supreme Court Picks Could Trip Up Immigration Agenda

The Trump administration’s immigration agenda may be imperiled by the president’s own U.S. Supreme Court appointees.

A case taken up by the court has the potential to overturn or severely limit a legal doctrine, disliked by many conservative jurists, that gives power to federal agencies when there’s a dispute over how they interpret regulations. The principle has been questioned by four of the high court’s nine justices, including Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, and any change in the amount of scrutiny that courts give to those interpretations will have particular significance in cases involving business immigration.

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