The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

Pardons are also the only state relief mechanism in America recognized by federal immigration law that would allow “a non-citizen convicted of an aggravated felony to avoid mandatory deportation and remove the conviction-related bar to citizenship.”. The full report can be accessed here.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

The statute was amended in 1950 to remove burglary from the list, and in 1968 it was amended to add rape and murder, in part because a federal civil rights commission noted the omission of such serious felonies from the list. Alabama , she contends that it was error not to receive the newly proffered mitigating evidence.

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Immigration Court Felony Statute 104

SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

8 for a packed session of oral arguments – starting with immigration policy and the post-9/11 “No Fly List” and ending on Jan. Since 1986, bankruptcy cases in Alabama or North Carolina have been administered by trustees appointed by the judicial branch, while all other cases have been administered by the U.S. Garland and Garland v.

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Government Statute Court Cause of Action 99

SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Alabama , the Supreme Court declared that mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for offenders who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

Texas that Texas and Louisiana do not have constitutional standing to sue the federal government over a 2021 Homeland Security Memorandum that focuses immigration enforcement actions on non-citizens who are suspected of terrorism, committed serious crimes or are caught at the border entering illegally.

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