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States sue Biden administration over immigration policies

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The Attorneys General of Arizona and Montana filed an amended a joint lawsuit Monday alleging that the Biden administration has violated immigration and administrative law. As pointed out in the joint Arizona and Montana complaint, this will result in the release of some detainees due to capacity limits.

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Justices probe states’ effort to defend Trump immigration rule after Biden stopped defending it in court

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Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Wednesday in a case involving whether a group of states can defend a contentious Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration refused to do so. After nearly 90 minutes of debate in Arizona v.

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Affirmative action cases up first in November argument calendar

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Arizona (Nov. 1): Whether the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling that a state rule of criminal procedure barred an Arizona death-row inmate from obtaining relief is an adequate and independent state-law ground for the judgment against him. Hendrix (Nov. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Cochran (Nov.

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February argument calendar includes immigration, voting-rights cases

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On March 2, the justices will hear oral argument in a major voting-rights dispute from Arizona. Democratic National Committee and Arizona Republican Party v. In the two cases, Brnovich v. Saul & Davis v. Saul (Mar. Disclosure : Goldstein & Russell, P.C.,

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“Remain in Mexico” and Texas’ anti-abortion law

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After Texas and Missouri challenged that decision, a federal district court vacated the secretary’s termination, in part on the administrative-law ground that the decision was insufficiently explained. Arizona — confirming that the rule announced in Simmons v. Issue : Whether the Supreme Court’s decision in Lynch v.

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Litigation continues over public charge immigration rule

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Those states, led by Arizona, appealed to the Supreme Court. The justices granted the states’ petition in Arizona v. In his concurrence in Arizona , the chief justice noted his worry “whether the Government’s actions, all told, comport with the principles of administrative law.”

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Justices decline to reach merits of conservative states’ attempt to revive public charge rule

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Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out an effort by Arizona and 12 other states with Republican attorneys general to defend a contentious Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration refused to do so. The case, Arizona v.