SCOTUS To Hear Detention Case:  The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a 2016 Ninth Circuit ruling which barred federal immigration agencies from detaining criminal immigrants after they have been released from criminal custody.  Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that in Nielsen v. Preap, the circuit held that, absent a bond hearing, the government may only detain a criminal alien upon his release from custody not months or years later.  The Trump administration maintains that that the law allows the government to detain criminal immigrants at any time, a position that was shared by the Obama administration.  The plaintiffs in the case include a Cambodian refugee who became a U.S. citizen in 1981, convicted of drug possession in 2006 and later for battery, and a Palestinian who became a legal resident in 1976, convicted in 2011 of attempted drug manufacturing.  The case will be heard in the court's next term, which begins in October.