Supreme Court to scrutinize ICE’s mandatory detention policy for immigrants

Under President Donald Trump, some immigrants have been denied bond hearings and spent months in detention while awaiting removal proceedings. The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would review the legality of the Trump administration’s novel policy of denying bond hearings to immigrants swept up in its immigration crackdown. The case is one of the first the high court has accepted since its summer recess ended, and it promises to be among the most consequential of the term that officially begins next week. Without the opportunity to request a bond hearing, some immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have...