Criminal Law Immigration Laws Texas 
JonathanTurley
MARCH 28, 2024
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has blocked border enforcement by the state under Texas’s SB 4. Many of us had predicted this result given the prior precedent of the Supreme Court on the federal preemption of state immigration laws. ‘Removal is a civil, not criminal, matter.’
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The courts have left few options for either the states or Congress in compelling the enforcement of federal law. In that case, a 5-3 majority ruled against a state seeking to enforce immigration laws in light of what it described as a vacuum of federal action. No state faces a greater danger than Texas.
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JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 16, 2022
While this is clearly not human trafficking, Salazar is working with immigration advocates to use a law designed to protect victims of human trafficking and other crimes, even before any such charge is brought by prosecutors. Immigration advocates were only able to get three migrants to join the initial challenge.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
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.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Surveillance technology employed during the pandemic has disproportionately targeted people of color, leading to a normalization of both “racial discrimination and inequality,” according to a University of Pittsburgh law professor. times higher than the White population — and also have disproportionate death rates.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 22, 2022
In three of the past four terms, the Supreme Court has rejected broad readings of white-collar criminal laws urged by the federal government. Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. McCutchen v.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Now, federal Judge Michael Truncale (left) has issued a preliminary injunction in the Eastern District of Texas to stop the prosecution of the company. I previously wrote a column opposing calls by GOP members for a federal investigation of Netflix and the movie “Cuties” (or Mignonnes).
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