Advocacy groups urged the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday to keep resisting presidential pressure to share confidential tax-return information with immigration enforcement authorities, saying the abrupt departure of the agency's new commissioner highlights the need for oversight.
The U.S. Department of Justice is contesting a watchdog's lawsuit seeking to obtain public records requests on now-Third Circuit Judge Emil Bove, who was formerly President Donald Trump's criminal attorney and a top DOJ official.
New York district attorneys, legal aid groups, law professors and retired judges have expressed support for a state law that blocks federal immigration officials from making arrests near courthouses, calling it essential to a functioning justice system and urging the dismissal of a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit challenging the law.
The Maryland federal bench again moved to throw out the Trump administration's "disruptive affront" challenging a standing order that temporarily paused the removal of noncitizen detainees who filed habeas petitions, arguing Monday that the Executive Branch's suit fails to state a claim and "wreaks unprecedented havoc on the Judiciary."
Recently released information about the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ new NextGen Uniform Bar Exam highlights why a single test is not ideal for measuring newly licensed lawyers’ competency, demonstrating the need for collaborative development, implementation and reform processes, says Gregory Bordelon at Suffolk University.
A San Francisco federal judge overseeing a bench trial over California's claims that President Donald Trump unlawfully deployed military troops in the state dug into a U.S. Army commander's testimony Monday that soldiers were sent to help enforce immigration laws, even when the military's own assessment showed a low risk of violence or damage.
A Nevada federal court has rejected a ranching association's latest attempt to claim immunity from a proposed class action accusing the association and its members of conspiring to suppress the wages of sheepherders who are working on temporary visas.
A New Jersey federal judge rejected Mahmoud Khalil's second bid to block the Trump administration from deporting him on an alleged paperwork violation, ruling he relied upon the same arguments and evidence he raised or could have raised the first time.
The Trump administration reversed a Biden-era policy aimed at protecting some children of temporary visa holders from losing their status and facing self-deportation when they turn 21.
Attorneys have numerous pathways to pursue misconduct claims against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Eleventh Circuit, and they need not wait for the court to correct its misinterpretation of a Federal Tort Claims Act exception, says Lauren Bonds at the National Police Accountability Project.