Supreme Court Approves Trump Administration’s Use of Fast-Track Deportations
BY MATTHEW VADUM The Supreme Court ruled June 25 that the federal government may continue deporting illegal aliens, including failed asylum-seekers, who are placed in the fast-track deportation queue, quickly after they lose their legal fights. The 7–2 ruling was a victory for President Donald Trump on immigration, his signature political issue. The Trump administration decided to rely on […]
Trump Says He Is Seeking Legal Solution on DACA Following Supreme Court Ruling
BY JANITA KAN President Donald Trump decried the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reject his bid to end an Obama-era program that provided legal protections and work authorizations to illegal immigrants who were brought into the United States as children, saying they have to “start this process all over again” for a legal solution. On Thursday morning, the Supreme […]
Supreme Court Refuses to Allow DACA Program to be Rescinded
BY MATTHEW VADUM The Supreme Court has ruled this morning that President Donald Trump failed to follow the law when he tried to rescind DACA, former President Barack Obama’s program that temporarily shielded young people who came to the United States illegally from being deported. There are close to 800,000 or more individuals eligible under the program known as […]
Supreme Court Denies to Review Trump Admin’s Request to Strike California’s Sanctuary Law
BY JANITA KAN The Supreme Court on June 15 rejected to hear the Trump administration’s request to strike down several provisions of a California “sanctuary” law that limits the cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration agents. The Trump administration appealed to the high court after lower courts refused to enjoin several provisions of the California Values Act, or Senate […]
Supreme Court Denies to Hear Challenges to Legal Doctrine Shielding Police From Misconduct Lawsuits
BY JANITA KAN The Supreme Court on Monday has declined to revisit a widely debated legal doctrine—known as “qualified immunity”—that insulates police officers from civil liability over their conduct. The top court denied eight major cases (pdf) that presented opportunities for the justices to reconsider its qualified immunity doctrine, which shields government officials from liability for damages claims […]
SCOTUS Rejects Request From California Church To Block Worship Restrictions
Mary Margaret Olohan |Social Issues Reporter . The Supreme Court rejected a request from a church to block California’s restrictions on religious services. South Bay United Pentecostal Church of Chula Vista, California, filed a petition over Memorial Day weekend saying that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus restrictions “arbitrarily discriminate against places of worship in violation of […]
Supreme Court Rebuffs Activists, Reinstates Ban on Encouraging Illegals to Stay in US
BY MATTHEW VADUM The Supreme Court unanimously resurrected a federal law struck down by an appeals court that made it a felony to encourage people to come to or stay illegally in the United States. The May 7 ruling was a dramatic victory for the Trump administration, which had urged the high court to reverse a 2018 ruling […]
Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Deport Green Card Holders Convicted of Serious Crimes
BY JANITA KAN A divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to make it easier for the federal government to deport lawful permanent residents (LPRs) who have been convicted of serious crimes. In a 5-4 decision, the top court justices sided against a man who was seeking to cancel deportation orders stemming from firearm and drug offenses. LPRs who are […]
POLITICS | Supreme Court Allows ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy to Continue
BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration can continue enforcing a policy that requires asylum applicants to wait in Mexico for their U.S. court hearings. The order overturns a lower court decision that would have blocked the policy, at least for people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and California. The […]
Democrats Unveiled— Think and Believe as We Do—Or Else
By Sigrid Weidenweber No Republican ever threatened the members of the Supreme Court to influence one of their decisions. Oh, they hinted and wished that things would go their way, but they never issued threats or refused to obey the law instituted by the court. Although, there had been calls for biased justices […]
