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The plaintiffs in the case were two legal residents, one from the US and one from Cambodia, who were both convicted on minor drug charges. The Supreme Court’s ruling went against multiple other rulings that limited the right of federal authorities to indefinitely detain without bond those aw...
The Supreme Court’s decision also may have wider implications beyond this case. Red states, such as Texas and Florida, have filed lawsuits to thwart parts of the Biden administration’s immigration agenda. These cases rely on the premise that the states meet the standing requirements...
Sotomayor, 69, has been on the court since 2009, appointed by Obama. She has written tough dissents from the decisions on affirmative action and abortion, jointly with the other liberal justices in the latter. During arguments in the abortion case, Sotomayor b...
Amy Coney Barrett, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2020. She was the 115th person, and the fifth woman, to serve on the Supreme Court. Barrett’s nomination and confirmation sparked political controversy on both substanti
The ruling is the court's first abortion decision since conservative justicesoverturned Roe v. Wadetwo years ago. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was part of the majority to overturn Roe, wrote for the court that “federal courts are the wrong forum for addressing...
But Democrats, and some Republicans, accuse Mr. Trump and his hard-lineconservativeWhite House advisers of using the Dreamers as leverage for changes to the immigration system that conservative, anti-immigrant activists have long sought. The case at the Supreme Court was brought in California by ...
The Supreme Court has restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting attempts in Colorado, Illinois, and Maine to hold the former Republican president accountable for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. (March 4) 2 of 7 | A unanimous Supreme Court ruling restored former P...
Roberts characterized the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA; 1952) as giving the president “broad discretion” over enforcing its provisions and concluded that the order was within the president’s power given the general authority granted by the INA, the absence of any explicit mention (in ...
US immigration officials will be able to allow asylum seekers entering from Mexico into the country before their cases are processed following a Supreme Court ruling on Thursday. Chief justice John Roberts and conservative justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court’s three liberals in the 5-4 vote ...