WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Thursday it will consider whether immigrants subject to deportation can be held in detention indefinitely while their cases are adjudicated.The eventual ruling could endorse or end a key feature of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown.The case was among three the court took up ahead of the justices’ return to action on Monday for a new nine-month term following a summer break.Rulings in all three are due by the end of June.The focus in the first case is whether such immigrants should have a chance to argue at a bond hearing that they can be released while the deportation process moves forward, which was standard practice under previous presidents.The justices will hear a Trump administration appeal in the case of Ricardo Aparecido de Cunha, a man from Brazil who originally entered the United States in the mid-2000s.He was detained following a traffic stop in Norwood, Mass., in September 2025.
After filing suit, a federal district court judge ordered that he be released.The New York-based 2nd U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision on appeal.Lower courts have been divided on the issue, although the majority have sided with immigrants who have argued that the federal law the Trump administration cites to hold them without a bond hearing only applies to people detained near the border.Since last summer, the Trump administration has sought to apply that federal law to anyone deemed to have entered the United States illegally, even if they are nowhere near the border and have lived in the country for years.Several cases on the issue are pending at the Supreme Court.For SubscribersFOR SUBSCRIBERSAbdul El-Sayed tries to woo MAHA voters as Democrats seek inroads with RFK’s supportersFOR SUBSCRIBERSGOP super PAC increases its spending for Sen.Jon Husted in tough Ohio raceFOR SUBSCRIBERSKratom-like substances are popping up in a typically benign supplementFOR SUBSCRIBERSRecords reveal tumultuous marr...