Explainer: Unpacking the Litigation Surrounding Trump's Deportation Efforts
As the Trump administration moves forward with its rapid efforts to deport those immigrants—with or without status—whom it deems dangerous or politically problematic, rights groups and immigration lawyers have repeatedly petitioned US courts to ensure due process for all at risk of deportation. These efforts have created a web of overlapping cases that are shaping [...]
US Supreme Court affirms order to return wrongfully-deported man from El Salvador
The US Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court order directing the US government to bring unlawfully deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back to the US. Abrego Garcia was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on his way home from work on March 12, and was sent to the newly-constructed, [...]
US Supreme Court removes federal court order to reinstate fired agency employees
The US Supreme Court Tuesday axed a federal court order that would have required the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal employees who were fired as part of the executive branch efforts to downsize administrative agencies. The court blocked the order upon hearing an emergency appeal filed by the administration following the lower court’s [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Biden-era federal regulations on “ghost guns,” or mail-order kits that allow people to build untraceable weapons at home, handing gun control groups a rare win at the conservative high court. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the court’s opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena [...]
US Supreme Court hears arguments over Louisiana electoral map
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s recently redrawn voting map and its two Black-majority districts. Plaintiffs claimed that the map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The civil rights era statute aimed to end voter suppression practices in southern states and specifically prohibits “the denial [...]
Louisiana executes its first inmate by nitrogen gas after Supreme Court declines to intervene
In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court refused to grant a stay to block Louisiana’s execution of an inmate by use of nitrogen gas. 46-year-old Jessie Hoffman Jr. became the first person ever to be executed in the state through this method on Tuesday evening . The Louisiana State Penitentiary scheduled Jessie Hoffman’s execution by nitrogen gas [...]
US Supreme Court sides with San Francisco over EPA in water quality policing dispute
The US Supreme Court sided with the city and county of San Francisco on Tuesday in a dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), finding the EPA cannot penalize the city if water quality levels fall below the agency’s standards when the city is, under permit, discharging pollution, including sewage, into the Pacific Ocean. The [...]
Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. On Wednesday morning, I walked up to an unusually quiet Supreme Court building to attend oral arguments for Ames v. Department of Ohio Youth Services, a case in which the Court has been asked to clarify [...]
Sharon Basch is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law filing occasional dispatches from Washington DC this semester. I made my way to the US Supreme Court press box for JURIST Monday morning to listen to oral arguments in Gutierrez v. Saenz, a case that could reshape the landscape of DNA testing [...]
US Supreme Court overturns Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip conviction and death sentence
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the murder conviction of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, ordering a new trial after it was found the state withheld evidence related to its main witness. In a 5-3 ruling, the Supreme Court found the prosecutors had a constitutional obligation to correct false testimony. During trial, it [...]
