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Supreme Court Rules States Can’t Challenge Federal Immigration Policy

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. According to the eight-member majority, “federal courts are generally not the proper forum for resolving claims that the Executive Branch should make more arrests or bring more prosecutions.”

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Two Landmark Rulings in U.S. and Mexico Split Over Border Treatment

The Crime Report

A Louisiana judge rejected President Joe Biden’s push to end Title 42, which restricted access of would-be asylum seekers to the U.S. The Mexican Supreme Court decision came after immigration officers arrested three Indigenous Mexican migrants – all under the age of 24 – for how they looked, dressed, and their minimal Spanish use.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

I first stumbled on 911 call analysis while reporting on a police department in northern Louisiana. When they hear it,” a prosecutor in Louisiana once told Harpster, “it will be like a Dr. Phil ‘a-ha’ moment.” On it, Harpster has openly espoused misogynistic, transphobic, Islamophobic and anti-immigrant views. I was wrong.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Louisiana Federal Court Halted Work on Crude Oil Pipeline in Swamp Area. order setting schedule Mar.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions. Louisiana v.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Parties Voluntarily Dismissed Appeals of Federal Court Decision Requiring More Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. Louisiana v. Wyoming Asked Court to Restart Federal Oil and Gas Leasing; Federal Defendants Sought to Move Louisiana Case to Wyoming. Louisiana v.

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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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