A Nebraska federal court's recent decision in Mukherji v. Miller seemed to vindicate longstanding complaints about the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' controversial two-step adjudication process, declaring the framework unlawful — but Mukherji is unlikely to be the death blow that immigration practitioners have hoped for, says Jun Li at Reid & Wise.
Immigrant rights groups suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over warrantless arrests in D.C. blasted the government in a new filing, claiming that ICE hasn't complied with an injunction ruling that the arrest practices violate federal law and has instead gone forward with dozens more illegal arrests.
The Trump administration is urging a New York federal court to block the city of Rochester's sanctuary immigration policies that the administration says stymie its own enforcement operations and discriminate against the federal government, arguing two federal statutes clearly preempt them.
Federal judges have been floating the possibility of holding government attorneys in criminal contempt of court for violating immigration-related court orders, a potentially shocking move that scholars say is unlikely and probably less effective than civil contempt orders.
Members of a Massachusetts family on Thursday filed the first of what their lawyers said could be a number of Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuits over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's "unwarranted and unnecessarily cruel" practice of smashing windows and forcibly dragging people out of vehicles.
A Florida federal judge has blocked the state's governor from designating a national Muslim civil rights nonprofit as a "terrorist organization," ruling that doing so to make a political statement violates the First Amendment.
A former Wisconsin judge has said the government's case against her for obstructing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has no limiting principle and wrongly turned her authority to manage her courtroom into a federal felony for impeding ICE.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who has come under fire from Republicans in recent days, will vacate her position later this month, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday.
Serving as an assistant scoutmaster for my son’s troop reaffirmed several skills and principles crucial to lawyering — from the importance of disconnecting to the value of morality, says Michael Warren at McManis Faulkner.
A Justice Department attorney Wednesday urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a district judge's ruling that a Trump administration policy denying bond hearings to detainees at an ICE facility is unlawful, arguing the detainees aren't eligible to challenge their detention because they're "seeking admission" to the country.