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UNITED STATES v. TEXAS 

Opinion of the Court 

A 
According  to  Texas  and  Louisiana,  the  arrest  policy
spelled out in the Department of Homeland Security’s 2021
Guidelines  does  not  comply  with  the  statutory  arrest
mandates in §1226(c) and §1231(a)(2).  The States want the 
Federal  Judiciary  to  order  the  Department  to  alter  its 
arrest  policy  so  that  the  Department  arrests  more 
noncitizens.1 

The  threshold  question  is  whether  the  States  have
standing  under  Article  III  to  maintain  this  suit.    The 
answer is no. 

To establish standing, a plaintiff must show an injury in
fact  caused  by  the  defendant  and  redressable  by  a  court
order.  See Lujan, 504 U. S., at 560–561.  The District Court 
found that the States would incur additional costs because 
the Federal Government is not arresting more noncitizens.
Monetary costs are of course an injury.  But this Court has 
“also  stressed  that  the  alleged  injury  must  be  legally  and 
judicially  cognizable.”  Raines,  521  U. S.,  at  819.    That 
“requires,  among  other  things,”  that  the  “dispute  is
traditionally  thought  to  be  capable  of  resolution  through 
the  judicial  process”—in  other  words,  that  the  asserted 
injury  is  traditionally  redressable  in  federal  court.  Ibid. 
(internal  quotation  marks  omitted);  accord  Valley  Forge, 
454  U. S.,  at  472.    In  adhering  to  that  core  principle,  the 
Court  has  examined  “history  and  tradition,”  among  other
things,  as  “a  meaningful  guide  to  the  types  of  cases  that
Article  III  empowers  federal  courts  to  consider.”  Sprint 
Communications Co. v. APCC Services, Inc., 554 U. S. 269, 
274 (2008); see TransUnion LLC, 594 U. S., at ___–___ (slip 
op., at 8–9). 
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1 The States may want the Department to arrest all of the noncitizens 
it is now arresting plus other noncitizens—or instead to arrest some of 
the noncitizens it is now arresting plus other noncitizens.  Either way, 
the States seek a court order that would alter the Department’s arrest 
policy so that the Department arrests more noncitizens.