The Supreme Court ruling on Arizona law SB 1070 will let states help enforce federal immigration law through police checks on immigration status. This should create more federal-state cooperation in battling illegal immigration, especially in states hit hardest by such massive lawlessness.the Monitor'...
"The Supreme Court has affirmed that all U.S. citizens have the right to register to vote using the national postcard, regardless of the state in which they live," she said. But Tom Caso, a professor at Chapman University School of Law in California, said the decision "opened the door"...
“that decision does a disservice to our own appellate processes, which serve both to constrain and to legitimate the court’s authority,” kagan wrote. “it does a disservice to the district court, which meticulously applied this court’s longstanding voting-rights precedent. an...
Supreme Court on Wednesday handed a win to President Donald Trump by leaving in effect a policy that requires thousands of people seeking asylum at the southern border to wait in Mexico while their claims are adjudicated. The court granted an emergency request filed by the administration a...
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed federal immigration agents to remove therazor wirethat Texas state officials have set up along some sections of the U.S.-Mexico border to try to discourage migrants from crossing into the country unlawfully. ...
In 1890, as Mississippi and other southern states formalized disenfranchisement of African Americans, the Supreme Court upheld them because voting restrictions did not specifically mention “race.” In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v Ferguson that it’s A-OK for segregated facilities to ...
In a pair of orders Tuesday afternoon, the high court denied emergency applications Kennedy filed earlier this month. With ballots printed weeks ago and mail-in voting already underway, his attorneys acknowledged it might be impossible for him to get off the ballot altogether,...
but was actually designed to allow states to use literacy tests to prevent Black people from voting, but they didn’t want to prevent the White people who just were hillbillies from being able to vote and so they created this Grandfather Clause that basically said, if your grandfather was abl...
Washington —Immigration, COVID-19 restrictions, voting rules and abortion are just some of the hot-button issues that have garnered the Supreme Court's attention over the last few months, but not through its regular process of exhaustive written briefs, oral arguments and, finally, a signed ...
Jerry Brown was illegal under the “California Rule.” That’s the legal concept stemming from a 1955 state Supreme Court ruling that holds the terms of a public employee’s pension benefit cannot be reduced for years not yet worked, only kept the same or increased. Cal Fire Local 2881 ...