A fedearl judge ruled Tuesday that the US Department of Homeland Security cannot hold migrants seeking asylum indefinitely as was previously ordered by Attorney General William Barr. Judge Marsha Pechman of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington held that section 235(b)(1)(B)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which prohibits releasing on [...]
The European Council in its special meeting on Tuesday elected Belgian Charles Michel as its president. He will serve a once renewable two and a half year term beginning 1 December 2019 until 31 May 2022. The council also considered nominees for other positions and defined its own role in nominating and appointing high profile [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday issued its ruling in Department of Commerce v. New York, the case challenging the planned inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census. The Court held that the Secretary of Commerce did not give an adequate explanation for including the citizenship question on the 2020 census: We are [...]
The US Senate approved a bipartisan border funding bill by a vote of 84-8 Wednesday after rejecting a similar bill passed by the House. The bill provides $4.5 billion in border funding, which includes nearly $3 billion in humanitarian aid and funding for the Department of Defense and more money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...]
FedEx Corporation sued the US Department of Commerce Monday for what they say is the Department’s efforts to use their regulations to “essentially deputize FedEx to police the contents of the millions of packages it ships daily even though doing so is a virtually impossible task, logistically, economically, and in many cases, legally.” In an [...]
The UK Court of Appeals on Monday overturned a decision by the UK Court of Protection that had ordered a mentally disabled woman to have an abortion against her and her mother’s wishes. The woman, who is in her 20s, has been described by doctors as having the mental capacity of a 6-9 year old. [...]
The US Supreme Court unanimously held on Friday that North Carolina cannot tax a trust based only on a trust beneficiary’s residence in the state. The question at issue in NC Dept. of Revenue v. Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust, was whether a trust beneficiary resident in the state of North Carolina established sufficient [...]
The US Supreme Court held in a 7-2 decision on Friday that undocumented immigrants must know both that they are in the country illegally and that they belong to a class that is proscribed from possessing firearms to be prosecuted under federal law. The petitioner, Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif, whose F-1 student visa had [...]
The Supreme Court of the United States in a 7-2 decision held on Thursday that the 40 foot tall Bladensburg Memorial Cross is Constitutional, does not violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, and does not have to be removed, in a reversal of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit’s decision. Justices Ginsburg and [...]
The President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the Honorable Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders, delivered the opinion of the court regarding the no-confidence vote held in the Guyanese Parliament on December 21, 2018, which the court held to be valid under the Constitution of Guyana. The Court’s decision upholds the decision of the Speaker [...]
