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. Singh , in which the court will consider what kind of notice the government must provide before a noncitizen can be deported for not appearing in court. Share The justices returned to the bench on Jan.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hong Kong residents in the US are not covered if they voluntarily returned to Hong Kong, have not continuously resided in the US, have been convicted of a felony or two misdemeanors, are subject to extradition, or have otherwise been determined by US officials to be unsafe to remain.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2023

In 2018 Greek authorities charged Sarah Mardini, Seán Binder and 22 other search and rescue volunteers with various misdemeanor and felony offenses, including human smuggling and money laundering, stemming from their efforts to identify and aid migrant boats off the coast of the island of Lesbos. All we want is justice.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 28, 2022

One hidden reason for the high numbers at the federal level is the arrest of undocumented immigrants who returned to the U.S. They account for about one-third of the federal revocations for criminal conduct, turning supervised release into “a tool of immigration enforcement,” he added. Returning to the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

There is nothing unlawful about conveying individuals who are lawfully in the country pending their immigration hearings. Indeed, public interest groups and the federal government do so regularly, including late-night flights to various cities. state once they are released by the federal government.

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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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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2021

Texas and Louisiana filed suit against the federal government Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, alleging that immigration authorities declined to take custody of convicted individuals who could be subject to deportation.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2024

Civil rights groups filed a complaint on Thursday against Iowa state officials to stop the state’s recently enacted immigration law from going into effect on July 1. The law makes it a crime for a foreign national to enter Iowa after having been deported from the US in the past, regardless of current immigration status.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

Share Federal immigration law requires the deportation of noncitizens who are convicted of an aggravated felony, which includes offenses “relating to obstruction of justice.” Pugin pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to a felony, while Cordero-Garcia was convicted of dissuading a witness from reporting a crime.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2024

In late February, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing the law from being enforced, noting that the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution and US Supreme Court precedent place immigration matters under federal jurisdiction. Justice Alito stayed the Fifth Circuit’s order on March 4 without explaining his reasoning.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The bill creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. It also empowers state magistrate judges to hear immigration cases and issue removal orders in addition to giving law enforcement the responsibility of ensuring compliance with the law.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2024

. “ The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now ,” Governor Abbott’s statement reads. Texas intensified its border security measures with the launch of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star in March 2021. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Nonetheless, New York prosecutors charged Jose with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a “violent felony” that applies to virtually all simple firearm possession cases in New York, both outside and inside the home. They lose their jobs, children, and immigration status, risking increased ICE enforcement. Faced with a 3.5-year

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Besides padding his government salary by more than $250,000, the double-dipping gave Petty other advantages. Two decades later, Wilson’s felony record continues to block her lifelong dream of becoming a nurse in Texas—a state that denies licensure to people convicted of specific crimes, including drug offenses.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

Moreover, the challengers note, the federal government argues that the Commission lacks authority to place restrictions on acquitted-conduct sentencing , because 18 U.S.C. The state legislature declined to add all felonies to the list, and — back when the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were still in effect — the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Gene Deveraux was sentenced to 100 years in Montana prison for multiple sexual felonies against his former wife and stepdaughter. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether the seating of a biased juror is the type of error that always requires a new trial.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

People walk dangerous routes when the government eliminates or fails to provide legal avenues that are safe, permanent and predictable whether it’s across the street or across an international border. Code made it a crime to cross the border without authorization, with a specific intent to target Mexican immigrants.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. Norway is predominantly ethnically Norwegian, but the immigrant population also tripled from 1998 to 2013. It doesn’t look like it.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2024

The lower court applied a test known as “rational basis” review, which looks at whether the law is rationally related to a legitimate government interest. As the case comes to the Supreme Court, the dispute centers on the proper test to determine the law’s constitutionality. In Hewitt v. United States and Duffey v. In Monsalvo Velazquez v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 15, 2022

In New York, unlicensed massage is a class E felony, punishable by up to four years in prison, whereas prostitution is a class B misdemeanor. Laws governing sex work were not written to keep people safe , but to criminalize those pushed to the margins without access to resources.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

1326 , they must prove the existence of a prior removal order adjudicated by a federal immigration agency. Refugio Palomar-Santiago’s case illustrates two broader themes: first, the various interactions between the civil immigration and criminal legal systems, and second, the ongoing complexity of the immigration laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The failure to comply with these requirements is a felony under Florida law. Pennsylvania’s law governing requirements for registered sex-offenders, he writes, “is in all relevant respects the same as Florida’s.” In 2017, Clements went to federal court, seeking to challenge the constitutionality of his conviction. Elldakli v.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Many Americans consider polygraphs the sole determiner for truthfulness, whether they’re used in law enforcement, trial testimony or government hiring practices. My circle of family and friends comprises veteran immigration agents and persons with significant law enforcement experience. It’s long past time to rethink this assumption.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The ACCA extends the minimum sentence – from 10 years to 15 – for an individual who had been convicted of a felony and possesses a firearm when that person has at least three “serious drug offenses.” The justices will then hear the first immigration case of the term. But an immigration judge rejected that argument, and the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Below is my column in USA Today on states and cities joining the “resistance” to the Trump Administration and its immigration policies. That moment soon passed, however, as lawyers apparently explained to the mayor that armed resistance to the federal government is often called wait for it insurrection.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2025

” While Dugan initially contested the allegations that she assisted an illegal immigrant to evade federal authorities in her Milwaukee courthouse, Democrats are heralding her as a type of Harriet Tubman guiding illegal immigrants to safety. Flores-Ruiz was previously deported and then entered again illegally, a federal felony.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Her mother hails from Jamaica, while her late father was the son of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. During her six years in the solicitor general’s office, Kruger argued 12 cases at the Supreme Court on behalf of the federal government. Early life and career. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Maryland v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Both the federal government (during the Trump administration) and three justices – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch – had urged the court to do so, but it was not until Friday that the full court agreed to consider the question. The phrase “undue hardship,” Groff argued, “must mean significant difficulty or expense.”.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and other state officials Thursday over state laws that limit local law enforcement from aiding federal immigration authorities. The Constitution carves out immigration authority as one of these areas. The DOJ also argued that the state laws conflict with congressional intent.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2023

This bargain had apparently involved dropping two of three felonies, but had not included an agreement on the sentence. Donald Trump will be convicted on numerous felony charges. Only if the attorney for the government states that it will not seek incarceration does this situation ease. It was long but unremarkable.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The court held that federal common law necessarily governed the nuisance claims because “[a] patchwork of fifty different answers to the same fundamental global issue would be unworkable” and “the extent of any judicial relief should be uniform across our nation.” Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“Supreme Court Weighs Reviving Biden Immigration Guidelines; The justices wrestled with questions about states’ standing to sue, whether the guidelines were lawful and the limits of judicial power over immigration”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” David G. ” Uriel J.

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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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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2025

The Department of Homeland Security announced on Friday that it has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador , Ukraine , Sudan , and Venezuela , granting 937,000 nationals from these countries an additional 18 months of immigration protection under the TPS program.

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Above The Law

MARCH 26, 2025

The government defended the policy by citing concerns about military readiness, unit cohesion, and costs, but the court found these justifications unsupported by credible evidence. Obama) What its about: This case arose from the federal governments termination of thousands of probationary employees across multiple agencies in February 2025.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

Targeting legal entities raises concerns about government interference in legal representation and has broader implications for the independence and responsibilities of law firms in an increasingly polarized environment. Trumps executive order limited access to government resources sending shockwaves throughout the legal profession.

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