The Supreme Court says it will take up a years-long legal case over a border restriction known as metering.
The policy allowed US immigration officers to limit, or meter, asylum seekers at border ports of entry and decline to process their claims, despite a U.S. law that guarantees the right to ask for that protection anywhere on U.S. soil.
It was first used under former President Obama and formally enacted by the first Trump administration, in 2018.
The Biden administration rescinded the policy in 2021, but the lawsuit against it continued until last year — when an appeals court ruled to uphold a lower court ruling that found the policy illegal.
Now, the new Trump administration will make its case before the Supreme Court. A separate ban on asylum has been in place since January.
The high court justices are expected to hear the case and make a ruling by next summer.
