The issue focused on political justice in an election year.

In court, Justice Attorney Richard Lawless told Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer that federal law enforcement officials had arrested criminal illegal immigrant Joseph DiMaggio and sought to deport him to Mexico. The attorney said they also wanted to remove another illegal immigrant from the country who was detained at a facility for asylum seekers in Colorado.

That legal challenge may have come about because Mr. Lawless had received federal financial assistance from the federal government to purchase medical