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US announces immediate suspension on entry for Nicaragua officials

JURIST

The US president is empowered by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to determine whether the entry into the US of certain immigrant or non-immigrant noncitizens is detrimental to the national interest, and can subsequently bar them from entering the country based on that finding.

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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

SCOTUSBlog

Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born Having lived through Dred Scott , he was deeply conscious of how mistakes by the court could lead to terrible outcomes. Harlan’s moral vision is memorialized in his lone dissent in Plessy v. born children.

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The ‘Pro-Life’ Pipeline to Prison

The Crime Report

This is part of a larger picture in which racial attitudes are increasingly linked with opinions on a wide range of disparate issues including social welfare issues, gun control, immigration and even climate change. Just consider some of the policies opposed by many conservatives who are celebrating their Supreme Court victory.

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