Noah Feldman, Columnist

Trump Asylum Victory May Only Be Temporary

Understanding the 7-2 vote requires a close look at Supreme Court professional etiquette.

September 12, 2019 at 1:00 PM UTC

Corrected

September 13, 2019 at 12:38 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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Donald Trump says that the Supreme Court has given him a big win on asylum. Don’t be so sure.

True, by a vote of 7-2, the justices allowed Trump’s new asylum regulation to go into effect — the one that says you can’t apply for asylum at the southern border if you’ve passed through Mexico and haven’t tried and failed to get asylum there.