JURIST

MARCH 18, 2024

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indefinitely extended a stay blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later stayed that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

Texas that Texas and Louisiana do not have constitutional standing to sue the federal government over a 2021 Homeland Security Memorandum that focuses immigration enforcement actions on non-citizens who are suspected of terrorism, committed serious crimes or are caught at the border entering illegally.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Gene Deveraux was sentenced to 100 years in Montana prison for multiple sexual felonies against his former wife and stepdaughter. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether the seating of a biased juror is the type of error that always requires a new trial.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2021

Texas and Louisiana filed suit against the federal government Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, alleging that immigration authorities declined to take custody of convicted individuals who could be subject to deportation.

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The Crime Report

MAY 28, 2021

immigration enforcement has largely shifted from the street to jails, resulting in overreach and an increase in incarceration, according to a North Carolina law professor. Jailhouse screening” was supposed to speed up immigration processes and identify undocumented immigrants who posed a threat to public safety.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

8 for a packed session of oral arguments – starting with immigration policy and the post-9/11 “No Fly List” and ending on Jan. Singh , in which the court will consider what kind of notice the government must provide before a noncitizen can be deported for not appearing in court. Share The justices returned to the bench on Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

Share Federal immigration law requires the deportation of noncitizens who are convicted of an aggravated felony, which includes offenses “relating to obstruction of justice.” Pugin pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to a felony, while Cordero-Garcia was convicted of dissuading a witness from reporting a crime.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2024

. “ The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now ,” Governor Abbott’s statement reads.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Nonetheless, New York prosecutors charged Jose with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a “violent felony” that applies to virtually all simple firearm possession cases in New York, both outside and inside the home. In firearm-possession cases, New York’s penal law sweeps broadly. Faced with a 3.5-year

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

Moreover, the challengers note, the federal government argues that the Commission lacks authority to place restrictions on acquitted-conduct sentencing , because 18 U.S.C. The state legislature declined to add all felonies to the list, and — back when the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were still in effect — the U.S.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2023

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Americans for Immigrant Justice (AIJ) and the American Immigration Council (AIC) filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the recently enacted Florida immigration law SB 1718 , one of the strictest immigration laws in the US.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The failure to comply with these requirements is a felony under Florida law. Pennsylvania’s law governing requirements for registered sex-offenders, he writes, “is in all relevant respects the same as Florida’s.” In 2017, Clements went to federal court, seeking to challenge the constitutionality of his conviction.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

1326 , they must prove the existence of a prior removal order adjudicated by a federal immigration agency. Refugio Palomar-Santiago’s case illustrates two broader themes: first, the various interactions between the civil immigration and criminal legal systems, and second, the ongoing complexity of the immigration laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The ACCA extends the minimum sentence – from 10 years to 15 – for an individual who had been convicted of a felony and possesses a firearm when that person has at least three “serious drug offenses.” Under state law, Georgia contends, there was never a valid verdict in McElrath’s case, and he can therefore be retried. taxpayers.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2024

Civil rights groups filed a complaint on Thursday against Iowa state officials to stop the state’s recently enacted immigration law from going into effect on July 1. The law makes it a crime for a foreign national to enter Iowa after having been deported from the US in the past, regardless of current immigration status.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hong Kong residents in the US are not covered if they voluntarily returned to Hong Kong, have not continuously resided in the US, have been convicted of a felony or two misdemeanors, are subject to extradition, or have otherwise been determined by US officials to be unsafe to remain. China imposed the NSL on Hong Kong in June 2020.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 15, 2022

There are 36 licensed professions in New York State but massage therapy is singled out as the only one where licensure is enforced by local law enforcement rather than an industry-specific board. Members of law enforcement had sexually assaulted Song and threatened her with deportation during a previous sting. 2233-A (Sepulveda)/A.255-A

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Monday that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is normally a federal matter. The bill creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

First, let’s look at the law. The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.”

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

needs to radically change existing immigration laws and policies to shift away from the mindset of “migrant sorting” by criminal status, according to a paper published in the Daedalus journal. Immigration and Criminal Justice Intertwined. The presidency of Donald Trump augmented this trend and brought it to public attention.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Federal law prohibits employers from firing workers for practicing their religion unless the employer can show that the worker’s religious practice cannot “reasonably” be accommodated without “undue hardship.” The justices granted review in 11 new cases for a total of eight hours of oral argument. Garland and Garland v. Cordero-Garcia.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. Norway is predominantly ethnically Norwegian, but the immigrant population also tripled from 1998 to 2013. It doesn’t look like it.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Many Americans consider polygraphs the sole determiner for truthfulness, whether they’re used in law enforcement, trial testimony or government hiring practices. My circle of family and friends comprises veteran immigration agents and persons with significant law enforcement experience. I was confident of being accepted.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“Supreme Court Weighs Reviving Biden Immigration Guidelines; The justices wrestled with questions about states’ standing to sue, whether the guidelines were lawful and the limits of judicial power over immigration”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” David G.

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JURIST

MARCH 20, 2024

The passage puts the midwestern state on track to join Texas in enforcing state immigration laws that operate independently of the federal immigration system, meaning they are not directly tied to or governed by federal immigration policies.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.” applied federal common law. and non-U.S. FEATURED CASE.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2023

This bargain had apparently involved dropping two of three felonies, but had not included an agreement on the sentence. Donald Trump will be convicted on numerous felony charges. It includes an experienced trial judge who seems determined to apply the law and who doesn’t miss the nuances. It was long but unremarkable.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Her mother hails from Jamaica, while her late father was the son of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S.

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