The US Supreme Court today Thursday bolstered the ability of the President Donald Trump's administration to quickly deport irregular immigrants without judicial review, including asylum seekers, while the number of Trump-appointed judges since his arrival to the party was 200, the vast majority of whom were white men.
Seven judges in favor of the administration appealed a ruling of a lower court ruling that a Sri Lankan farmer named Vijayakumar Thurisigiam has the right to be reviewed by a judge to deal with the government trying to seek asylum. Two judges refused to support the US administration's appeal.
The judges concluded that limiting judicial scrutiny of the issue of his deportation quickly did not violate the fundamental guarantees of individual liberty in the US Constitution.
This court ruling gives Trump a victory in a political issue that has become linked to him personally, and is gaining momentum, given the upcoming presidential elections in November.
Reshaping the judiciary
In a related context, the US Senate on Wednesday largely supported the appointment of a judge appointed by Donald Trump, increasing to two hundred the number of judges who were approved by the Council since the beginning of Trump's term, during which he largely rearranged the federal judicial system.
Fifty-two of the 100 senators, all Republicans, supported the appointment of Cory Wilson, 49, to a judge at an appeals court in New Orleans, in the south of the country.
Democrats vehemently opposed the appointment of this former Mississippi deputy, who, according to them, says they support measures restricting the exercise of minority rights to vote.
Because of the many amendments to the appointment support system since 2013, the democratic minority has had little room for maneuver to stop this appointment.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has benefited from the Trump administration since the changes to support the appointment of the presidential candidates who choose based on their record as governors and their young age, with the aim of leaving a long-term imprint on the country's courts.
McConnell, in a video posted on his Twitter account, welcomed the latest appointment, saying: "After this 200-degree threshold is crossed, only one vacant position for a judge remains in the appeals courts in the country for the first time in 40 years."
For his part, Republican Lindsey Graham, who heads the Senate Judicial Committee, considered this a "historic step."
Among the 200 appointments made under Trump are two in the Supreme Court, during which Trump pledged during his first presidential campaign to name anti-abortion and pro-armed judges.