Trump Administration Loses SCOTUS Torture Deportation Case (2)

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration in a dispute over federal court power to review noncitizens’ claims that they’ll be tortured in their home countries if they’re deported.

Monday’s 7-2 opinion by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in the case of a Lebanese native allegedly at risk of torture by ISIS and Hezbollah, is the high court’s latest pronouncement on the broader issue of immigration that’s dominated the docket this term.

It settled a split in the nation’s appeals courts, overturning a Feb. 2019 ruling by the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that said courts ...