The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump another legal win Monday without explaining its decision.
The court has frozen lower court rulings to allow so-called "roving" immigration patrols in California, with all six conservatives ruling in the administration's favor and three liberal justices dissenting, reported NBC News.
The justices offered no explanation for the decision aside from a solo concurrence by Justice Brett Kavanaugh and a dissent written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Kavanaugh cited two previous immigration cases where the court held that lower courts lacked the authority to block immigration policies by Joe Biden's administration, but Georgetown law professor Steve Vladeck pointed out the court had denied the government's emergency applications in each of those cases.
"Especially in an immigration case like this one, it is also important to stress the proper role of the Judiciary," Kavanaugh wrote. "The Judiciary does not set immigration policy or decide enforcement priorities."
Sotomayor harshly criticized the majority's decision.
"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage job," she wrote. "Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
