The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday requested additional briefing over the Trump administration's request to send hundreds of federalized National Guard troops into Chicago, deferring a ruling on an Illinois federal judge's order indefinitely blocking the deployment for at least a week.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday unveiled an interim final rule to end automatic extensions for expiring work permits for which renewal applications have been filed.
A D.C. federal judge Tuesday torched emergency filings seeking to reverse recent changes to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, calling the documents "difficult to understand" and "messy," and signaling that she likely won't grant an emergency injunction ahead of state elections next week.
If courts accept the administration’s new interpretation of preexisting case law, which attempts to graft onto grant recipients the existing limitations on government contractors' free speech, a more deferential standard may soon apply in determining whether an agency’s refusal or termination of a grant was in violation of the First Amendment, say attorneys at Venable.
An Illinois federal judge has ordered a top Border Patrol official overseeing the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge in Chicago to appear before her every weekday ahead of a Nov. 5 preliminary injunction hearing and to wear a body camera, after she questioned him on the stand Tuesday about his agency's recent uses of force.
Democratic senators called for the Congressional Budget Office to investigate the cost of President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in five U.S. cities, saying the mobilization of military forces raises serious fiscal, legal and constitutional concerns.
A Tennessee federal judge is requiring Trump administration officials to adhere to a local criminal rule barring extrajudicial statements in its criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia over human smuggling charges, citing the Salvadoran's right to a fair trial.
As attorneys increasingly face unprecedented and pervasive situations — from prosecutions of law enforcement officials to executive orders targeting law firms — they must develop several essential competencies of effective crisis lawyering, says Ray Brescia at Albany Law School.
Kilmar Ábrego García won't be deported to Liberia unless the Maryland federal judge who blocked his deportation lifts the order, an attorney for the Trump administration assured the court Monday, despite the government previously saying he could be sent there as soon as Friday.
The Ninth Circuit's practice of automatically granting requests to stay removal orders on appeal allowed a Peruvian couple to gain time in the country with a "barebones" filing, according to a three-judge panel who said the practice must end.