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SCOTUS Kicks Off February Sitting With Oral Arguments in Three Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

The issues before the Court involved Native American law and immigration. United States : The case involves the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause and how it applies toa prosecution in the Court of Indian Offenses. Texas : The case involves gaming activities on Native American land in Texas. Texas , 36 F.3d

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Supreme Court Rules States Can’t Challenge Federal Immigration Policy

Constitutional Law Reporter

Texas , 599 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. In their opinion, Congress specifically prohibited courts from issuing injunctions related to certain immigration laws. In United States v.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

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. First, let’s look at the law. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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Three Martha Vineyard Migrants File Lawsuit Against DeSantis

JonathanTurley

The undocumented migrants who were transferred to Martha’s Vineyard have quickly adopted one common American practice: litigation. Indeed, I teach in torts where an immigrant to the United States filed a tort action for an involuntary inoculation upon entry in O’Brien v. YouTube screengrab. DeSantis.

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When “Work Arounds” Don’t Work: The Fifth Circuit Cites Biden’s Chief of Staff In Rejecting Vaccine Mandate

JonathanTurley

To its credit, the Fifth Circuit did not give the Klain tweet the weight that the Ninth Circuit gave Trump’s tweets in its rulings against his immigration orders. Nothing could be more damaging to the litigation and the federal courts quickly rejected the CDC and Tribe arguments. Here is the opinion: BST Holdings v.

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Admission Against Interest: White House Chief of Staff Admits Vaccine Mandate is a “Work Around” the Constitutional Objections

JonathanTurley

Ironically, this move comes on the same day that Attorney General Merrick Garland denounced the “clever” use of the Texas abortion law to make it more difficult to challenge. It is again politics driving litigation by the Justice Department. The question is whether this clever work around will in fact work.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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