JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Below is my column in The Hill on the worsening situation at the Southern border and how the Supreme Court laid the seeds for this crisis over a decade ago. The courts have left few options for either the states or Congress in compelling the enforcement of federal law. They have often found the courts closed to them.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 9, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the effort to declare an “invasion” along the Texas border to allow the state to take greater control along the border to stem the flow of illegal immigrants. Greg Abbott signed an order allowing Texas law enforcement to return illegal immigrants apprehended in the state back to the U.S.

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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

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

Rather, she declared that she was not convinced the order was “wise or just” or “lawful.” 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. The order was constitutional.

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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

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

JANUARY 10, 2024

Despite decades of controversial cabinet members accused of flaunting the law or abusing their positions, Congress has only crossed this Rubicon once. Such releases, however, occurred in prior administrations and the merits of these claims are still being argued in court. That was Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876.

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