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US Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut Texas border fencing

JURIST

The Biden administration requested the decision to allow federal agents to access the border without facing tort claims from Texas. The US Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to permit federal border patrol agents to cut the razor wire that Texas installed on the US-Mexico border. The Supreme Court will address the case in full this session.

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Major OxyContin case headlines December session

SCOTUSBlog

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.” The justices will then hear the first immigration case of the term. But an immigration judge rejected that argument, and the U.S.