Only quotes the dissent, and on a point that is not germane to the decision: “Once again, the Executive Branch has issued a rule that seeks to upend longstanding practices regarding refugees who seek shelter from persecution,” Sotomayor wrote.

That's what elections are for. To reverse long standing policies that are not required by the Constitution.

Amazing how one judge can shut down a presidential policy decision...repeatedly ignoring higher courts telling him not to do so.

The legal challenge to the new policy has a brief but somewhat convoluted history.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco blocked the new policy from taking effect in late July.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed Tigar’s order so that it applied only in Arizona and California, states that are within the 9th Circuit. That left the administration free to enforce the policy on asylum seekers arriving in New Mexico and Texas.

Tigar issued a new order on Monday that reimposed a nationwide hold on asylum policy.

The 9th Circuit again narrowed his order on Tuesday.

The high court action allows the Republican administration to impose the new policy everywhere while the court case against it continues.