The Supreme Court‘s recent decision to strike down a Trump-era bump stock ban could have an impact on President Joe Biden‘s recently imposed limits on asylum claims.
The ruling held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives erred in classifying bump stocks as machine guns, effectively banning them, and that it would take an act of Congress to implement a ban on bump stocks. If the court holds in line with the majority ruling it made in the bump stock ban case, Biden’s recent executive action restricting asylum-seekers would also be struck down, according to former Obama-appointed U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance.
Vance discussed Justice Samuel Alito’s concurrence in last week’s Garland v. Cargill decision, in which he argued that “the statutory text is clear, and we must follow it.”
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