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Court will confront jurisdictional jumble in the case of a transgender woman seeking relief from deportation

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Share The nation’s immigration courts are breaking under the cumulative weight of a byzantine statutory scheme, chronic understaffing, and insurmountable case backlogs. She was detained and subsequently applied for a type of humanitarian relief known as “withholding of removal” under the Immigration & Nationality Act.

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“Remain in Mexico” and Texas’ anti-abortion law

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immigration court. After Texas and Missouri challenged that decision, a federal district court vacated the secretary’s termination, in part on the administrative-law ground that the decision was insufficiently explained. solicitor general argues that the statutory basis for the Trump administration’s policy, 8 U.S.C.

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The Major Questions Doctrine is a Fundamental Threat to Environmental Protection. Should Congress Respond?

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In the year since the Supreme Court embraced the “major questions doctrine” (MQD), industry and Republican state attorneys general have argued that federal regulations ranging from stricter vehicle emissions standards to climate change disclosures must be struck down under its banner. Env’t Prot. In a case before the D.C. Circuit, Texas v.

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