Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 9, 2022

Supreme Court held that federal courts lack jurisdiction to review facts found as part of any judgment relating to the granting of discretionary relief in immigration proceedings enumerated under 8 U.S.C. 1255 , which would have made Patel and his wife lawful permanent residents. 1252(a)(2). Facts of the Case.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Cuties is “the story of Amy, an eleven-year-old Senegalese immigrant caught between cultures: her devoutly Muslim family and the “Cuties”—a self-named dance group of Amy’s peers who have their hearts set on trying out for and performing at a big dance competition.” 3d 874, 880 (5th Cir. 2018) (quoting Younger, 401 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. There is nothing unlawful about conveying individuals who are lawfully in the country pending their immigration hearings. state once they are released by the federal government.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Supreme Court called the appellate court’s conclusion that there are always reasonable legal alternatives to disobeying constitutional laws “untenable,” and held that “reasonable legal alternatives” must be effective. Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent decisions of Attorney General Merrick Garland to support the prior positions taken by his predecessor, William Barr, on issues ranging from the Lafayette Park protests to immigration to withholding information related to the Mueller investigation.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 3, 2023

Instead, a 6-3 majority again declared that Biden was violating the Constitution and had to go to Congress. The same court that had just ruled overwhelmingly to support Biden’s immigration policies turned around and issued a devastating and detailed opinion as to why no such authority existed in this case.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Christian Legal Society and Robertson Center for Constitutional Law , Concerned Women for America , and Judicial Watch, Inc. To the contrary, in the year it was ratified (1868), thirty of thirty-seven states explicitly criminalized abortion by statute.” Moreover, they write, “abortion was a longstanding common-law crime.”.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Whether it is the circumvention of Congress or launching unilateral wars, presidents dance to their own tune to the gleeful applause of their supporters. Take the series of losses recently by the Biden Administration in areas like immigration. It should sound familiar.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

Indeed, the Biden administration has been found to have violated the Constitution in a surprising array of cases in a surprisingly short period of time. Across the country, trial courts have been finding constitutional violations by the Biden administration in areas ranging from immigration to the environment to pandemic relief.

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