The Supreme Court will decide whether ICE can deny bond hearings.

The Supreme Court agreed to review the Trump administration’s mandatory-detention policy, which denies bond hearings to some immigrants as removal cases proceed. The administration says the policy is permitted by immigration law; lower federal appeals courts have split over that reading. The Court did not decide the legality of the policy today. But it will now answer a question with immediate consequences for who can be held without a bond hearing and for how much latitude immigration agencies have to reinterpret detention law.

The Court’s decision to hear the case puts the administration’s expanded mandatory-detention policy on a path to a definitive national ruling after lower courts divided over its legality.