( May 18, 2026, 2:03 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on May 18 invited the solicitor general to file a brief expressing the views of the United States in a class case in which the operator of immigration detention centers across the United States is asking the high court to decide whether the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause permits a state to find detainees participating in a voluntary work program are employees who are owed state-mandated minimum wages rather than the $1 per day wage most were making....