Judges Can’t Review Visa Revocations, Supreme Court Says (1)

The US Supreme Court said federal courts can’t second-guess visa revocations even though judicial review would’ve been available if a visa was denied in the first place.

The justices on Tuesday unanimously ruled that visa revocations are left to the discretion of the Homeland Security Department, meaning Congress has stripped courts of the authority to review them.

Writing for the court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the decision was “a quintessential grant of discretion” to DHS that judges can’t review.

DHS initially approved a visa for US citizen Amina Bouarfa’s husband, but revoked it after determining he’d engaged in a ...