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

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Texas presents the latest stage in the Biden administration’s attempt to unwind the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy. The Biden administration sought a stay of that order in the Supreme Court, but the justices rejected that request over the dissent of Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.

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Tick, Tick, Tick…: The Supreme Court Readies an Explosive Docket for 2022

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Wade and return the area to the states, it is more likely that the court will increase the authority of the states while recognizing constitutional protections for such reproductive rights. After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks. Chevron USA Inc.

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Supreme Court to decide whether insurrection provision keeps Trump off ballot

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A state administrative law judge agreed that Greene’s “heated rhetoric may well have contributed to the environment that ultimately led to” the attack on the Capitol, but he concluded that she had not engaged in an insurrection. In a ruling on Dec. In 2022, Georgia officials rebuffed a challenge to U.S.

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Divided court declines to reinstate Biden’s immigration guidelines, sets case for argument this fall

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The justices on Thursday agreed to take up a challenge by Texas and Louisiana to a new federal policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. The justices will hear the case in late November without waiting for a federal appeals court to weigh in.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Jackson then snagged a highly sought-after spot as an associate at Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin, a Washington litigation boutique that later merged with Baker Botts, a Texas-based firm. Circuit before being nominated to the Supreme Court, as did the late Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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