In Tuesday’s order, five conservative justices sided with Republican officials in 19 states, including Texas and Arizona, who sought to maintain Title 42, which has been used to expel migrants more than 2 million times since it was implemented in March 2020.While the majority did not provide reasoning, which is common in emergency requests, dissenting Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said the order would “effectively require the federal government to continue enforcing the Title 42 orders indefinitely.” He suggested that the majority was buying time in hopes the political branches would reach a compromise.White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration will comply with the Supreme Court’s action but added that “Title 42 is a public health measure, not an immigration enforcement measure, and it should not be extended indefinitely.” She called for Republicans in Congress to “move past political finger-pointing and join their Democratic colleagues in solving the challenge at our border by passing the comprehensive reform measures and delivering the additional funds for border security that President Biden has requested.” Abbott, meanwhile, tweeted that “Texas is stepping up while the Biden Admin fails to do its job.Those notations mean that the majority was composed of Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar told the justices that the federal government recognizes that lifting Title 42 “will likely lead to disruption and a temporary increase in unlawful border crossings.” But she wrote that the solution to that immigration problem “cannot be to extend indefinitely a public-health measure that all now acknowledge has outlived its public-health justification.” The government, she wrote in a court filing, is prepared to increase resources and to “implement new policies in response to the temporary disruption that is likely to occur whenever the Title 42 orders end.” Republican state officials asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the case and to block the Biden administration’s plans to terminate the policy."