SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Colorado 23-831 Issues : (1) Whether a prior misdemeanor conviction that elevates a subsequent offense from a misdemeanor to a felony is an element of the subsequent offense that must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt under Apprendi v.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Elevator pitch: FastVisa provides an immigration infrastructure for legal and nonprofits that allows for collaboration, efficiency, and transparency to the complex immigration. We empower them to do more with less in immigration. We help immigration legal and nonprofits develop, deliver, and optimize programs and services.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Elevator pitch: FastVisa provides an immigration infrastructure for legal and nonprofits that allows for collaboration, efficiency, and transparency to the complex immigration. We empower them to do more with less in immigration. We help immigration legal and nonprofits develop, deliver, and optimize programs and services.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 11, 2022

Advocates say the required use of the app, which allows officials to easily check on them by requiring the immigrants to send a selfie or make or receive a phone call when asked, violates immigrants’ privacy and makes them feel they’re not free, deeming it unfair considering many have paid bond to get out of U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helaman Hansen ran an immigration-advising service. Hansen charged undocumented immigrants to advise them on what he claimed was a pathway to U.S. Issue : Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in violation of 8 U.S.C.

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2023

Adams called on the US government to help larger cities manage unprecedented levels of immigration and claimed that the influx of migrants could cost NYC up to $2 billion. The post New York mayor declares ‘no room’ for migrants amid high immigration appeared first on JURIST - News.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2024

New Mexico and Colorado. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Texas border enforcement law again blocked in legal whiplash (John Kruzel & Andrew Chung, Reuters) The immigration ruling carries an echo of an earlier one on a Texas abortion law. Trevino and Texas v.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

For example, in 20 states, — including California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Wyoming — a pardon offers the only way to regain firearms rights lost because of a past conviction. Put simply, a pardon is a powerful sign of “official forgiveness,” that can help someone get their life back on track.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In a recently published research paper in the Stanford Law Review, Aya Gruber, a law professor at the University of Colorado, considers the concept of “sex exceptionalism” in the United States criminal justice system and asks readers to take a second look at how we treat sex crimes.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

A sheriff’s sergeant in Colorado also read the FBI bulletin and, weeks later, asked Adams to analyze a 911 tape from a widow suspected of killing her husband. Local police asked the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to help find out who did it. She and Harpster wrote a report of their findings. “OK

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2022

People in the 5,000 some local jails, juvenile facilities, immigration detention facilities, military prisons, and other facilities are even less likely to have access to higher education. States like Colorado , Louisiana , and Missouri specifically prioritize those who have less than five years on their sentences.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Elenis , the case brought by Colorado website designer Lorie Smith, on Dec. The justices will also hear oral arguments in two cases involving federal fraud and bribery statutes, a challenge to the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement decisions, and the government’s authority to dismiss a lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act.

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JURIST

APRIL 23, 2025

The US Supreme Court decided on Tuesday that immigrants who are offered voluntary departure have some deadline flexibility. The case, argued last November, concerned undocumented Mexican immigrant Monsalvo Velzquez, who was ordered removed and allowed to self-deport.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Colorado , which upheld a law that banned approaching within eight feet of another person in public fora outside abortion clinics “for the purpose of … engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling” unless that person consents. . § A list of this week’s featured petitions is below: Vitagliano v. Elldakli v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 21, 2022

In fact, one might say that western North America in general has borne the brunt of climate change disasters such as droughts , record breaking heat and cold temperatures going as far north as at least British Columbia, and wildfires including the Colorado wildfires last month.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The backlog of cases in the nation’s immigration courts has risen to nearly 1.5 The figures culled from court records show that although some 21,000 immigration cases were resolved by October of this year nearly 50,000 new cases were added to court dockets over the same period. Last month, the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2025

Not when tolling immigration timelines, U.S. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Heres the Friday morning read: Do weekends count?

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

District Court of the District of Colorado indicted Denezpi on a charge of aggravated sexual assault in Indian country based on the same underlying events. The immigration judge rejected his argument, and the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed his appeal on the ground that it was too late.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

American Lawyer ] * Maine joins Colorado and invokes the Fourteenth Amendment to bar Trump from the ballot. Houston Chronicle ] * Meanwhile, employers are desperate for immigrant work options as full employment and labor shortages collide. * The law firms we lost in 2023.

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2025

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) launched a “Know Your Rights” campaign Thursday to inform city residents of their legal protections against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE). Other states have passed similar legislation, including Colorado and Ohio.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The Memorandum stated that “it is the policy of the United States to exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status under the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, to the maximum extent feasible and consistent with the discretion delegated to the executive branch.” 44,679 (July 23, 2020).

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 31, 2024

Supreme Court will review a Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 ballot on grounds he violated section 3 of the federal Constitution’s 14th amendment by engaging in insurrection. There have been many amicus curiae briefs submitted in Trump v. Anderson , where the U.S.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2021

“Often these community meetings are more likely to be the kinds of residents who are owners instead of renters; they are older residents as opposed to young people, and they may not include immigrants or people who are generally marginalized,” she said.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Garland involve whether being an accessory to a crime after the fact (or, relatedly, dissuading a witness from reporting a crime), is “an offense relating to obstruction of justice” under immigration law. Natural Resources Defense Council to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ interpretation of that phrase. Colorado , 22-138.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 14, 2025

“Another Lawsuit, This Time in Colorado, Over Trumps Use of the Alien Enemies Act; The presidents efforts to invoke a wartime statute to deport scores of Venezuelan immigrants have set off one of the most contentious legal battles of his second term”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

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LegalReader

MAY 6, 2021

Colorado has agreed to end its lawsuit on immigration-related law enforcement funding. According to Colorado Politics, the state had filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Justice while former President Donald Trump was in power.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, it is ridiculous to claim that groups have not found success in this country, which continues to draw millions to our shores as immigrants. Sites like Lawyers, Guns, and Money feature writers like Colorado Law Professor Paul Campus who call for the firing of those with opposing views ( including myself ). It doesn’t.

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Above The Law

APRIL 28, 2025

First , from the AP : The FBI on Friday arrested a Milwaukee judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, escalating a clash between the Trump administration and local authorities over the Republican presidents sweeping immigration crackdown. Read more here. Read more here.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Counterman came to the Supreme Court in August, asking the justices to decide whether courts should use the objective test on which the Colorado courts relied or instead a subjective test that requires prosecutors to show that the speaker intended to make a threat. Counterman v. Garland and Garland v. Cordero-Garcia.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

WildEarth Guardians and Physicians for Social Responsibility filed a complaint in the federal district court for the District of Columbia challenging BLM’s approval of 2,067 oil and gas leases covering almost two million acres of public lands across five states—Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

needs to radically change existing immigration laws and policies to shift away from the mindset of “migrant sorting” by criminal status, according to a paper published in the Daedalus journal. Immigration and Criminal Justice Intertwined. The presidency of Donald Trump augmented this trend and brought it to public attention.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

The federal district court for the District of Columbia allowed American Petroleum Institute and the State of Wyoming to intervene as defendants in a lawsuit filed earlier in 2021 in which environmental groups challenge BLM’s approval of 1,153 oil and gas leases on public lands in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Haaland , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions. Gulf Oil LP , No.

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