A US federal judge in California on Tuesday vacated four of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, holding that immigration officials have failed to provide a legally sufficient justification for eliminating longstanding limits on civil immigration enforcement at courthouses. The court granted the plaintiffs’ motions for summary judgment, finding that the challenged policies are arbitrary [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii law requiring licensed permit holders to obtain a property owner’s express permission before carrying a firearm onto private property open to the public. In its ruling, the Court held 6-3 that the rule violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution. The decision [...]

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill that had cleared both chambers of Congress by veto-proof margins, conditioning his signature on Senate passage of a controversial voter-eligibility measure. Trump announced the move on Truth Social hours before a scheduled Capitol Hill signing ceremony, writing that the event was cancelled [...]

Taiwan withdrew from the 2026 Our Ocean Conference (OOC) held in Mombasa, Kenya, on June 16, after two Taiwanese delegates were denied entry to the conference, and later detained by authorities for over 20 hours. Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ocean Affairs Council condemned the Kenyan government for yielding to diplomatic pressure from Beijing. [...]

A US federal judge has quashed Department of Justice (DOJ) grand jury subpoenas targeting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and other state and local officials. The court found that the DOJ used the subpoenas as part of an unconstitutional effort to pressure them into assisting federal immigration enforcement. In an order dated [...]

A forensic scientist whose manipulation of DNA evidence has thrown more than 1,000 Colorado criminal cases into doubt pleaded guilty Tuesday to four felonies, closing a prosecution that has forced courts across the state to re-examine convictions based on her work. Yvonne “Missy” Woods was charged with 102 felonies in January 2025 and pleaded not [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Damon Landor, a Rastafarian man imprisoned in Louisiana, could not sue the Louisiana Department of Corrections (LDOC) officials who restrained him and cut off his dreadlocks. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the 6-3 opinion, which focused on the applicability of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigration officers are not required to have clear and convincing evidence that a returning lawful permanent resident committed a crime involving moral turpitude before treating the resident as an applicant for admission rather than as someone already admitted to the United States. The 6-3 decision in Blanche v. [...]

In a January dispatch by JURIST, we noted that former Ghana Finance Minister Kenneth Ofori-Atta was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pursuant to Ghana’s December 10 formal extradition request to the US Department of Justice for Ofori-Atta, who faces 78 counts of corruption and corruption-related offenses. However, on June 5, ICE’s removal proceedings against him were terminated after a [...]

Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee ‌Feldstein Soto announced on Sunday “a legal victory” for the city, stating that a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by US President Donald Trump’s administration over its sanctuary city ordinance. Feldstein Soto stated: “This order reinforces the well-established principle that local governments have the authority to decide how to use [...]