JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2024

The hearing was initiated by House Republicans who accused Mayorkas of failing to follow immigration law and of violating the public trust as border crossings have reached record levels. He blames the high 10,000 border encounters a day as a direct result of Mayorkas’ refusal to enforce the laws of Congress.

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The Crime Report

MAY 28, 2021

immigration enforcement has largely shifted from the street to jails, resulting in overreach and an increase in incarceration, according to a North Carolina law professor. Jailhouse screening” was supposed to speed up immigration processes and identify undocumented immigrants who posed a threat to public safety.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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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. China imposed the NSL on Hong Kong in June 2020.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Greg Abbott ’s Operation Lone Star , the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled unanimously Wednesday that Travis County courts can’t weigh claims of wrongful detention caused by misdemeanor arrests 200 miles away. Migrants sat in state prisons for weeks or months after being arrested without being appointed lawyers or seeing a judge.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 18, 2022

A group of defense attorneys told the state’s highest criminal court that some men are still locked up for months before the courts give them an attorney or prosecutors file misdemeanor charges against them, in violation of state laws.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 1, 2021

California , which involves whether police pursuits for misdemeanors justify a warrantless entry, an issue which has divided the lower courts. However, the Supreme Court’s exigent circumstances precedents have not yet addressed pursuits involving suspected misdemeanors, which are by far the most common basis for arrest.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2021

The study, published by the Idaho Law Review, exposed what its authors call an unhealthy conflict between using fines and fees as both a source of revenue and punishment, and said they imposed an inequitable burden on the rural poor and communities of color. The full report can be accessed here.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether Arizona’s sentencing law for juvenile offenders convicted of first-degree murder violates Miller because, although the law allows for the possibility of release, the state abolished parole for homicide in 1994.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

a)(1), which allows relief if there’s been “prejudicial error damaging the moving party’s ability to meaningfully understand, defend against, or knowingly accept the actual or potential adverse immigration consequences of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere.” The court also granted and transferred in Pfeister v.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A groundbreaking study by the Rand Corporation and the University of Pennsylvania Law School makes this point. This isn’t the tail wagging the dog; this tail has swallowed the dog. I’ve spent nearly 50 years defending criminal cases, and I don’t expect an Armistice to be declared any time soon.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

First, let’s look at the law. The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.”

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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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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2024

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indefinitely extended a stay blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later stayed that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Monday that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is normally a federal matter. The bill creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses.

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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.” Further, she wrote, the the Model Penal Code is not law but only an aspirational law reform project. citizen].”

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JURIST

APRIL 17, 2024

” The articles claimed that Mayorkas failed to comply with US law and breached public trust in his handling of the US-Mexico border and immigration matters. .” ” The articles claimed that Mayorkas failed to comply with US law and breached public trust in his handling of the US-Mexico border and immigration matters.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star using state law enforcement to enforce immigration law by arresting migrants for trespassing is overwhelming local courts and resulting in few convictions. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that Texas Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Marcos Mendez was returning to the United States in 2016 when his passport was flagged at immigration in Chicagos OHare International Airport. This was not Mendezs first hold-up at immigration. The other was a 2010 arrest for child pornography, which resulted in a misdemeanor conviction for endangering a child. Jacobsen v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2021

Advocates also say decriminalization will reduce the stigma that surrounds people involved in sex trafficking, most of whom are poor women and girls, immigrants and LGBTQ people. . Hawaii enacted a law last week that removes the statute of limitations for sex trafficking and distinguishes sex buyers from people selling sex.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Two separate New York bills, the Stop the Violence in the Sex Trades Act and the Sex Trade Survivors Justice and Equality Act, aim to decriminalize sex work in significantly different ways, reports Law 360.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

With the decriminalization of jaywalking in Nevada , Virginia and now California — the “ Freedom to Walk ” Act will take effect in Los Angeles in the new year — it appears that people understand this when it comes to jaywalking, but not when it comes to immigration. . When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S.

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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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The Crime Report

APRIL 15, 2022

There are 36 licensed professions in New York State but massage therapy is singled out as the only one where licensure is enforced by local law enforcement rather than an industry-specific board. Members of law enforcement had sexually assaulted Song and threatened her with deportation during a previous sting. 2233-A (Sepulveda)/A.255-A

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Innovation Law Lab , a challenge to the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy, which allows the Department of Homeland Security to return immigrants seeking asylum to Mexico while they wait for an asylum hearing in U.S. immigration courts. Alcaraz-Enriquez (Feb. California (Feb. United States v. Saul & Davis v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2024

The hearings this week may reveal conduct that reaches the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. It is also true, in my opinion, that none of those things amount to high crimes and misdemeanors warranting his impeachment. Immigration has long been an area of intense policy disagreements. It is a matter of discretion.

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JURIST

JULY 4, 2023

Sharon Basch is a rising 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Within the last few years, the US Supreme Court has seen a large volume of what are and will be considered landmark cases – cases that have a lasting and significant effect on law, often concerning individual rights and liberties. Milligan and Moore v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

From judicial appointments to executive orders directly targeting law firms, to ramifications of tariff wars, the profession is experiencing a seismic shift. Some of the most significant areas include: Regulatory Changes The deregulatory agenda in healthcare, finance, and environmental law has introduced significant uncertainty.

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