WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Md.-08), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.-02), Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee, led 23 Democratic Members in filing an amicus brief (https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/25-5-bsac-members-of-congress.pdf) before the Supreme Court of the United States in Noem v. Al Otro Lado, urging the Court to reaffirm that the Constitution vests in Congress - not the executive branch - the authority to write and revise the nation's asylum laws.
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