The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration on Tuesday in a 6-3 ruling that will make it easier for immigration officers to deny readmission to green card holders who’ve left the United States. Following the ruling, immigration officers will no longer need “clear and convincing evidence” that lawful permanent residents have committed a disqualifying crime before barring them from reentering the U.S. In a dissent signed by her two liberal colleagues, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, “I worry that the Court has now handed the Government a massive blank check.”
Separately, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 against a Black former prisoner who sued Louisiana prison officials for handcuffing him to a chair and forcibly shaving his dreadlocks. Damon Landor is a Rastafarian who had not cut his hair in two decades. He unsuccessfully argued that prison guards broke a federal law that requires states to protect the religious rights of prisoners.











