Oct 24, 2019 · The Trump administration's immigration policies appear to violate the due process and civil rights of migrants and have created an unnecessary crisis at the southern border, a government agency ...
Apr 07, 2022 · New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a Manhattan judge Thursday to hold former President Donald Trump in contempt of court and fine him $10,000 every day until he turns over documents in ...
Jul 15, 2019 · Legal experts say the new rule violates both domestic and international law. The ACLU announced on July 16 that it had filed a lawsuit against …
Oct 27, 2020 · , the attorneys general criticized the agency for rushing through the process implementing the rule. They said that it discourages foreign students and media from coming to the U.S. and possibly...
On July 15 , the Trump Administration announced the change to asylum rules making it so that migrants had to have made an asylum claim at a previous country while en route to the U.S. before arriving to the southern border — anyone who hasn’t becomes ineligible for asylum in the U.S. In response, groups working with migrants have been highly ...
border will no longer be able to make a claim for asylum beginning July 16. Immigration attorneys and experts say the rule is a violation of domestic and international asylum laws, and federal judge has sided with the administration in one of two cases brought against the new rule.
President Donald Trump departs the South Lawn of the White House, on December 12, 2020, in Washington, DC. On Sunday, the Washington Post published a recording of an extraordinary phone call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which the outgoing president urged Raffensperger, a Republican, ...
Biden won Georgia by 11,779 votes, so if Raffensperger were to somehow “find” 11,780 votes, Trump would take the lead in that state. Raffensperger, to his credit, repeatedly rebuffed Trump. Trump’s call with Raffensperger wasn’t just a direct attack on American democracy. It also was most likely a criminal offense.
The RFRA is a law passed by Congress that protects religious believers from adverse effects of federal government policy. It was the basis for the court’s recent decision in Hobby Lobby v.
An executive order or law displays unconstitutional animus and thus violates the Equal Protection Clause when it has the “purpose and effect of disapproval of a class recognized and protected by state law ,” as Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Windsor.
In other words, when it comes to Equal Protection, it’s the motive of the government and its agents that matters. If a government official seeks to carry out Trump’s order and bar entry into the country, that is a violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States. There are those who argue that the president’s powers when it comes ...