No ‘Magic Words’ Needed as Asylum-Seekers Lose at High Court (1)

Immigration judges don’t have to explicitly say when they find an asylum seeker’s story not credible, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a loss for immigrants challenging how their cases are reviewed.

In a unanimous opinion on Tuesday authored by Neil Gorsuch, the justices sided with the government in reversing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which applied a standard that said courts must accept an immigrant’s version of events absent a clear finding that the story isn’t credible.

The Supreme Court stressed that the standard under federal law for reviewing credibility is “highly deferential” to Justice ...