Supreme Court will evaluate the legality of the program Deferred Action for Parents of Americans & Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) which was issued by President Barack Obama in November 2014 in response to the passage of immigration reform. The Supreme Court Ruling is noted to affect thousands ...
the Supreme Federal Court ruled thatsexual orientationcould not be a pretext for denying a couple the legal protections of marriage, although it stopped short of specifically authorizing same-sex marriage at the federal level. In response, several Brazilian states separately opted to allow for same-...
What it means:The outcome of the Supreme Court decision will address "what power the states are going to have in the future on immigration enforcement," Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis Law School, told Hotsheet. Although the Supreme Court's decision will only rule on Arizona's law...
On a five to three vote,the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona’s immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Administration.But on the more important matter of the Constitution,the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the Administration’s effort to upset the balance of ...
The nation's highest court is being asked to decide how much leeway a president has on policy that hasn't been specifically spelled out by Congress. CBS News' John Dickerson speaks with James Romoser, editor of SCOTUSblog, about the facts
In the Nineteenth century the Supreme Court would rule against native Americans because those savages did not make productive use of the land so allowed the white man to take that land away from those who had so long honored it. In 1997, President Bill Clinton made a “compromise” deal to...
The justices sidestepped the politically fraught issue of insurrection in their opinions Monday, but some Trump critics pointed to the silence on that topic as a victory of sorts because the court failed to absolve him of responsibility for the Capitol riot. The court held that states ...
In 2020 Roberts wrote majority opinions for the Court in two cases concerning subpoenas issued to private firms for financial and tax records related to Pres. Donald Trump and his businesses. InTrumpv.Vance(2020), the subpoenas concerned documents relevant to an investigation by the Manhattan dist...
On a five to three vote, the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a dest policy victory for the Obama Administration. But on the more important matter of the Constitution, the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the Administration's effort to upset the balance of...
The Supreme Court says part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes istoo vague to be enforced. The court's 5-4 decision Monday concerns a provision of immigration law that defines a "crime of violence." Conviction for a crime of viole...