Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Supreme Court’s January sitting started off with the late addition of two cases challenging vaccine mandates imposed by the Biden Administration. The central issue before the Court in both cases is whether the vaccine mandates should be allowed to move forward while the legal challenges work their way through the lower courts.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2022

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a 5-4 decision that US President Joe Biden can end former President Donald Trump’s Migration Protection Protocols (MPP) policy, also known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy. This overturns a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruling that kept the MPP policy in place.

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LegalTalkNetwork

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We also learned more about the ABA’s actions in immigration, the government shutdown, and changes to their website. American Bar Association President Bob Carlson joins hosts Sharon Nelson and John Simek to discuss his tenure as president as well as ABA initiatives in the government shutdown, immigration, membership outreach, and much more.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court justices may finally have to decide if the White House can write immigration rules (Joan Biskupic, CNN).

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JURIST

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The announcement follows an August US Supreme Court order requiring the MPP to restart over the Biden Administration’s objections. The Trump DHS argued that MPP was necessary to restore an orderly immigration process and reduce frivolous asylum claims. MPP is expected to restart on December 6.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in a challenge to a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. Texas and Louisiana went to federal court in Texas to challenge the policy.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Share Can the Biden administration issue guidelines setting priorities in the enforcement of immigration law? And if the guidelines are unlawful, does the Administrative Procedure Act give lower courts the power to vacate them — a universal remedy that goes beyond the parties to the case? Texas , set to be argued on Nov.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday added nine new cases to its docket, including a high-profile dispute over the extent of technology companies’ immunity from lawsuits based on the content they host. However, the majority concluded, Congress – rather than the courts – should clarify how broadly Section 230 applies.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday night rejected the Biden administration’s plea for a reprieve from a district-court order requiring it to reinstate a Trump-era program known as the “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they wait for a hearing in U.S. immigration court.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon agreed to decide whether the Biden administration must continue to enforce the Trump-era program known as the “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they wait for a hearing in U.S. immigration court. After the U.S.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 25, 2022

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments this week on the legality of the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy, officially called “Migrant Protection Protocols”, that has been a centerpiece of efforts to deter asylum-seekers, reports the Associated Press.

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JURIST

AUGUST 25, 2021

The US Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Biden administration Tuesday night when it refused to grant a stay of a lower court order requiring the administration reinstate a Trump-era immigration policy. Texas and Missouri sued the government in federal district court, challenging the termination of the program.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

support to Ukraine” as well as “irregular immigration.” Recently, a court found that the Biden Administration’s censorship efforts constituted “ the most massive attack against free speech in United States history. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. Those words by Chief U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C. The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C. The states contended that further delay in the Court’s resolution of these “weighty issues” would have “serious and far-reaching costs.” FEATURED CASE. 20-1530 (U.S.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday denied the Biden Administration a stay on a district court order reinstating a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico while their immigration cases are pending. Texas and Missouri are challenging the MPP’s termination.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 20, 2021

Share The Biden administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for an immediate reprieve from having to reinstate a Trump-era program known as the “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico immigration court. The court agreed in October 2020 to review a ruling by the U.S.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Monday denied the Biden administration’s appeal to terminate the Trump-era Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), affirming a Texas district court’s decision that would require the administration to leave the MPP intact.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit seeking to roll back access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions. Three states with Republican attorneys general – Idaho, Missouri, and Kansas – joined the dispute in the lower court earlier this year.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

immigration court. 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. Remain in Mexico” policy. As the case proceeded to an appeal in the U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday handed the Biden administration a major victory, giving it the green light to end one of the Trump administration’s signature immigration programs: the controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they wait for a hearing in U.S. immigration court.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Share On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Biden v. immigration court. In March 2020, the court allowed the Trump administration to begin enforcing the policy after a federal district judge in California blocked it. In October 2020, the Supreme Court agreed to review a ruling by the U.S.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Rather than an immediate stop to the policy, the government’s latest petition seeks review on the Supreme Court’s 2022 spring calendar. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar requested that the court, should it grant the case, order expedited briefing to allow for arguments in April 2022, with a decision likely before July.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. The viability framework.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2021

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas delivered a blow to the Biden Administration on Friday by ordering the reinstatement of the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, also known as the “Remain-in-Mexico” policy. Motor Vehicle Mfrs. Ass’n of U.S.,

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in the battle over the Biden administration’s efforts to end one of the Trump administration’s signature immigration policies. During nearly two hours of oral argument in Biden v. It was, Prelogar stressed, an exercise of “his statutory discretion to make a policy judgment.”.

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