Presidential power over asylum
Mullin v. Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Mullin and other federal officials ask whether a 2025 proclamation lawfully suspended some noncitizens’ entry and blocked access to asylum and other laws that could let them stay, whether federal law bars group-wide relief, and whether the group was properly defined.
- What's at stake
- The unresolved questions concern whether certain noncitizens may be kept from entering or seeking asylum and other legal protections, and whether they may receive relief as a group.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The petition remains pending; conference distribution is not a decision to hear it.
The officials’ petition also asks whether federal law bars the district court’s group-wide relief and whether the affected group was properly defined.
Question presented
1. Whether Presidential Proclamation No. 10,888, 90 Fed. Reg. 8333 (Jan. 29, 2025), and its implementing guidance — which suspended the entry of certain aliens and precluded their access to statutory provisions that would enable their continued presence in the country, including asylum — are lawful. 2. Whether 8 U.S.C. 1252(f )(1) bars the classwide relief entered by the district court. 3. Whether the class definition comports with Article III and Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
What happens next
The petition was distributed for the Court’s Nov. 13, 2026, conference, but that does not mean the Court agreed to hear it. No oral argument or decision date is set.
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Sources
Primary materials plus reporting. Best-effort analysis: this explainer relies on a mix of primary materials and trusted secondary sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.