A federal prosecutor told a Massachusetts judge on Tuesday that the government has returned a phone it seized from an immigration lawyer but does not intend to delete data it pulled from the device, prompting the court to raise concerns that the information could be used to identify and arrest immigrants.
Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi deflected when questioned on the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and other controversies involving the U.S. Department of Justice.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security must face a lawsuit lodged by advocacy groups alleging detained immigrants are being denied proper access to counsel, a D.C. federal judge ruled, finding that the legal services organizations adequately alleged "a close relation" to the third parties in the lawsuit.
A new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration interim final rule restricting states' issuance of commercial drivers licenses to foreign-domiciled drivers does not alter motor carriers' obligations to verify drivers' qualifications, but may create disruptions by reducing the number of eligible drivers, say attorneys at Benesch.
A new regulation revamping wage calculations for workers on temporary H-2A visas is being welcomed by agricultural employers, but the possibility of depressed wages could tie up the policy in litigation at a time when the Trump administration is predicting farm labor shortages.
A D.C. Circuit judge on Monday pressed the government about the procedures in place for ensuring noncitizens who are ineligible for expedited removal aren't deported, noting a dearth of evidence about their sufficiency.
Chicago-area journalists and demonstrators on Monday sued the Trump administration in Illinois federal court, alleging in a putative class action that federal agents in full combat gear have been violently violating their First Amendment rights to protest peacefully and report news.
Legal advocacy group Democracy Forward in a suit Monday asked a D.C. federal court to order the Trump administration to hand over a recording that reportedly shows White House border czar Tom Homan accepting a $50,000 cash payment from undercover FBI agents last year.
The New Jersey Supreme Court appeared skeptical Monday that a worker can't bring state wage and hour claims because he is an unauthorized immigrant, as an appellate court had found, and grilled a realty management company's attorney about the source of an argument.
A Maryland federal judge on Monday gave the government 48 hours to show that it had taken steps to remove Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a third country "in the reasonably foreseeable future" or face the prospect of his release from immigration custody pending his habeas petition.