JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2024

Immigration has long been an area of intense policy disagreements. In my view, Biden has been dead wrong on immigration, but voters will soon have an opportunity to render a judgment on those policies in the election. If Mayorkas is violating federal law, he can be brought to court to enjoin his actions.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For example, New York and numerous other cities have declared themselves to be “sanctuaries” for undocumented immigrants yet, in recent months, have protested increasing transfers of such immigrants to their jurisdiction. The cost of California’s statewide reparations is estimated to be $569 billion. In City of Richmond v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2021

Some 13,000 undocumented immigrants have been admitted to the country since the ending of the policy. During that litigation over the Trump executive orders, I repeatedly noted that the Democratic challengers in court were making arguments that would likely used against the next Democratic president in seeking to quickly undo Trump’s orders.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 4, 2023

There is a major ruling out of the United States States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in favor of a middle school science teacher, Eric Dodge, who was barred from wearing a “Make America Great Again” baseball cap and later berated by the principal, Caroline Garrett, as a “racist” and a “homophobe.” Lane, 573 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 27, 2021

This week the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to strike down President Biden’s renewal of the controversial eviction moratorium. In the prior decision, the Court ruled 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v. It is the same basis that Democrats used to successfully challenge some Trump immigration policy changes.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Take the series of losses recently by the Biden Administration in areas like immigration. The Administration lost a number of unilateral moves by Biden on the basis of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), a law requiring the government to consider objections and countervailing facts before making final decisions.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Former Justice official and Harvard professor Jack Goldsmith pointed out that Yates neither determined the immigration order to be unconstitutional nor cited any basis for refusing to defend it. Yet, the Supreme Court ruled that she was wrong and the OLC was right. The order was constitutional.

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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”. Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. BP p.l.c. , Two amicus briefs were filed in support of the companies, one by the U.S.

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