Former Chief Justice Roberts clerk appointed to defend removal decision
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Amy Howe reports that the Supreme Court yesterday appointed a former clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts to defend a n immigration ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that the Biden administration declined to defend.
A short unsigned order appointed Stephen Hammer, an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson Dunn, to brief and argue in support of the Fourth Circuit decision in Riley v. Garland.
In Riley, the justices will weigh in on questions relating to the 30-day deadline to seek review of a ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals denying a request to block removal. Pierre Riley, a native of Jamaica, has lived in New York for nearly three decades. The Biden administration agrees with Riley that the court of appeals was wrong when it concluded that the 30-day deadline to file a petition to block removal is jurisdictional and that a court cannot review the petition if the deadline is missed.
KJ