Immigration Heavy High Court Docket Mirrors Trump Priorities

The Trump administration’s focus on immigration has crowded the U.S. Supreme Court’s docket with an unusually large number of those cases this term.

The justices have typically heard between one and five immigration cases since the 2009 term, according to Bloomberg Law research. But they’ve agreed to eight this term—with more to add.

“Immigration has always been a hot-button issue,” but even more so under President Donald Trump, said Andrew Arthur, resident fellow in law and policy at the Center of Immigration Studies.

The “high profile of immigration as a policy issue in this administration,” the “large number of ...