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ACLU, immigrant rights groups resume lawsuit over COVID-19 asylum policy

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other immigrant rights groups have resumed a lawsuit against the United States over a controversial immigration policy known as the Title 42 process. The parties therefore seek to resume litigation on Plaintiff’s motions for class certification and classwide preliminary injunction.”

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In major immigration case, both sides look to academia to untangle three knotty questions

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Share Can the Biden administration issue guidelines setting priorities in the enforcement of immigration law? In 2011, John Morton, then the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, issued a series of memos setting enforcement priorities. Do states have standing to challenge these guidelines?

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Climate change and immigration policies headline February argument calendar

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The justices will tackle a wide range of issues, from the Environmental Protection Authority’s power to regulate greenhouse gases to an effort by a group of states to defend a controversial Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration declined to do so. 28 in West Virginia v. Texas (Feb.

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One of Trump’s signature immigration policies is back before the Supreme Court

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immigration court. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit holding that the policy was likely inconsistent with both federal immigration law and international law, but the justices dismissed that case in June 2021 after the Biden administration ended the policy – or, at least, tried to end it.

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DOJ loses attempt to withhold emails regarding Trump’s Muslim travel ban

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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday overturned a decision allowing the United States Justice Department to withhold records concerning former Acting U.S. EO-1 was challenged in federal district court by multiple states, and a nationwide temporary restraining order was implemented.

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States ask Supreme Court to keep Title 42 border policy in effect

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Share Nineteen states came to the Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices to keep in place a Trump-era policy that allows immigration officials to quickly expel migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the states’ request to join the case on appeal. And on Nov.

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Justices agree to review EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases

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Share In a term already defined by abortion and guns , the justices on Friday agreed to hear two more politically divisive disputes, involving the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases and the ability of states to defend a Trump-era immigration rule that the Biden administration has declined to defend.