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The Supreme Court has granted a stay of an injunction on the Trump administration's construction of a wall along the southern border pursuant to a declaration of national emergency. Justices Ruth Bader G...
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit limited the scope of the government’s ability to prosecute people for illegally crossing the border, holding that only people who cr...
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Editor's note: This post has been updated to address the Guatemala Safe Third Country Agreement that United States and Guatemalan officials announced on Friday, July 26.
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Overview
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The former special counsel’s testimony is not ultimately important for any bombshells or revelations but for initiating the long-belated creation of an Article I record of the president’s conduct.
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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction in East Bay Sanctuary et al. v. William Barr et al., a case challenging the Trump administration’s rule de...
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On July 23, the Department of Homeland Security expanded the scope of its expedited removal designation pursuant to its authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Previously, for undocumented m...
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On July 23 at 10:00 a.m., the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing titled, ”Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The committee has called FBI Director Christopher Wray as a witnes...
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On July 12, the government filed an application before the Supreme Court for a stay pending appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Trump v. Sierra Club, concerning the president’s u...
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On Friday, July 19 House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York requesting information related to two qu...
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Conventional wisdom and many lower court cases hold that foreign states are not entitled to constitutionally based personal jurisdiction protections in federal courts because they are not “persons” prote...
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Two immigration support and advocacy organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s latest restrictions on asylum, in addition to the ACLU’s lawsuit. Both the complaint and the plaintiffs’ moti...
