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Court will confront jurisdictional jumble in the case of a transgender woman seeking relief from deportation

SCOTUSBlog

Share The nation’s immigration courts are breaking under the cumulative weight of a byzantine statutory scheme, chronic understaffing, and insurmountable case backlogs. She was detained and subsequently applied for a type of humanitarian relief known as “withholding of removal” under the Immigration & Nationality Act.

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The ‘Unexamined Law of Deportation’

The Crime Report

But a Stanford University researcher argues that basing deportation decisions of immigrants on the level of criminality without looking at the length of time they have been in the U.S. disrupts families and turns immigration services into a vehicle for crime control. longer, they are disrupting families with stronger ties to the U.S.,

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Federal US judge rejects Trump funding freeze over constitutional violations

JURIST

Among the areas that drew particular scrutiny in the memo and related executive orders were environmental and climate-related projects, including references to terminating the Green New Deal, and grants associated with immigration policy.

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Litigation continues over public charge immigration rule

SCOTUSBlog

Last term, the court dismissed as improvidently granted, or “DIG”ed , a case brought by Republican-controlled states challenging the government’s repeal of a Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule. The post Litigation continues over public charge immigration rule appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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Divided court declines to reinstate Biden’s immigration guidelines, sets case for argument this fall

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court will again weigh the executive branch’s authority to set immigration policy as some red states claim that the Biden administration’s enforcement decisions are too lax. immigration policy generally, describing a “corrosive disrespect” by DHS for the rule of law and characterizing the U.S.-Mexico

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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. In February, the Biden administration formally proposed a replacement rule.

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The Major Questions Doctrine is a Fundamental Threat to Environmental Protection. Should Congress Respond?

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The Scramble to Identify Major Questions in Administrative Law In its June 2022 decision in West Virginia v. The challenge of meeting changing conditions in administrative law is known as the pacing problem: scientific and technological developments will nearly always outstrip the pace of government oversight. Env’t Prot.

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