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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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

MARCH 19, 2024

The US Supreme Court has lifted a stay that prohibited the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries, allowing the law to go into effect. The post US Supreme Court allows Texas law criminalizing illegal entry from abroad to go into effect appeared first on JURIST - News.

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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

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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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Texas , involving alleged sex discrimination in juror selection (over the dissent of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson); six-time relist McKesson v. A federal district judge in Texas invalidated the rule and entered a national injunction against it. The court denied review of nine-time relist Compton v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Now-retired prosecutor Ralph Petty earned a living at the Midland County District Attorney’s Office in West Texas. As a subsequent ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals finally made clear, the arrangement was not a momentary lapse in judgment or a one-time offense induced under pressure. Wilson will face similar challenges in Texas.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2022

David Dubin was the managing partner of PARTS, a psychology practice in Texas. United States is whether identity theft occurs anytime a person uses someone else’s name in the commission of a crime. Facts of the Case. In April 2013, a treatment facility in San Antonio asked PARTS to evaluate a child known as Patient L.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

Similarly, In 11 states — including Arkansas, Delaware, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas — ineligibility for jury service is permanent without a pardon. On a more broad spectrum, a pardon may be necessary to enable anyone to run for elected office, or simply secure a professional or business license.

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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. Earlier this year, the court declined to hear an appeal by Kristopher Love, a Black man on death row in Texas who argued that the seating of a racially biased juror in his case was structural error.

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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. Smith was charged with five felony counts. In response to increased flooding, the Texas Department of Transportation raised Interstate Highway 10 near Houston and built a concrete median barrier.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

While there is a fair debate over the policy of relocation by states like Texas and Florida, the effort to use the criminal process as part of that political debate is … well, pathetic. There is nothing unlawful about conveying individuals who are lawfully in the country pending their immigration hearings.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

My circle of family and friends comprises veteran immigration agents and persons with significant law enforcement experience. Alan Cunningham is a graduate of Norwich University and the University of Texas at Austin. In late 2020, I applied for a position as a Border Patrol Agent with the United States Border Patrol (USBP).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

DHS had waived the requirements of NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and other laws pursuant to Section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. The two states said the circumstances providing a basis for the stay (i.e.,

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