Supreme Court Unanimously Backs Trump on Immigration in Landmark Jackson-Authored Opinion

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that federal appeals courts must defer to the findings of immigration judges rather than conduct their own fact-finding when reviewing asylum claims — a landmark decision authored, remarkably, by liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The ruling confirms the limited role of federal courts in immigration disputes and hands the Trump administration a significant legal victory in its campaign to tighten immigration enforcement. The fact that even the Court's most progressive member wrote the opinion underscores the strength of the legal reasoning: this is not a partisan ruling but a clarification of institutional roles that both liberal and conservative justices agreed was long overdue. The decision arrives as ICE operations expand nationwide and the immigration debate continues to divide the country along political and moral lines.