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Cite as:  598 U. S. ____ (2023) 

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Statement of GORSUCH, J. 

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

ARIZONA, ET AL. v. ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, 
SECRETARY OF HOMELAND 
SECURITY, ET AL. 

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF 
APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT 

No. 22–592.  Decided May 18, 2023 

The December 16, 2022 order of the United States Court 
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denying pe-
titioners’ motion to intervene is vacated, and the case is re-
manded to that court with instructions to dismiss the mo-
tion as moot. 

JUSTICE JACKSON dissents from the vacatur of the order 
of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Co-
lumbia Circuit and would instead dismiss the writ of certi-
orari as improvidently granted. 
  Statement of JUSTICE GORSUCH. 

This  case  concerns  the  “Title  42  orders.”    Those  emer-
gency decrees severely restricted immigration to this coun-
try  for  the  ostensible  purpose  of  preventing  the  spread  of
COVID–19.  The federal government began issuing the or-
ders in March 2020 and continued issuing them until April
2022, when officials decided they were no longer necessary.1 
If that seems reasonable enough, events soon took a turn. 
In a federal district court in Louisiana, a number of States 
argued that the government’s decision to end the Title 42 
orders violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5
U. S. C. §551 et seq., because agency officials had not pro-
vided advance notice of their decision or invited public com-
ment.2  The States did not seriously dispute that the public-

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1 87 Fed. Reg. 19944–19946, 19956 (2022). 
2 Louisiana v. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, 603 F. Supp. 

3d 406, 412 (WD La. 2022).