Supreme Court to decide lawfulness of Trump’s immigrant detention policy - NBC News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Thursday it will consider whether immigrants subject to deportation can be held in detention indefinitely while their cases are adjudicated. The eventual ruling could endorse or end a key feature of President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration crackdown. The case was among three the court took up ahead of the justices’ return to action Monday for a new nine-month term following a summer break. Rulings in all three are due by the end of June. The focus in the first case is whether such immigrants should have a chance to argue at a bond hearing that they can be released while the deportation process moves forward, which was standard practice under previous presidents. The justices will hear a Trump administration appeal in the case of Ricardo Aparecido Barbosa da Cunha, a man from Brazil who originally entered the United States in the mid-2000s.