The Supreme Court Limits the Crimes That Can Lead to Near-Automatic Deportation
The Supreme Court issued a decision last Thursday in a criminal case that will have an immediate impact on immigration law. The new decision set a limit on the types of crime that can be considered an...
View ArticleSupreme Court Denies Bond Hearings to People Pursuing Protection Claims Who...
The Supreme Court issued a decision on June 29 in the Johnson v. Guzman Chavez case. The majority of the justices determined that people with prior removal orders are subject to mandatory detention,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Refuses to Stop the Migrant Protection Protocols From Going...
The Supreme Court refused to block an order to reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy. The decision comes after a Texas judge halted the government’s...
View ArticleHere Are the Immigration Cases Before the Supreme Court This Term
The United States Supreme Court will face challenging questions impacting immigration law as it begins considering cases in its October 2021 term. The Court’s decisions on these cases will impact...
View ArticleJustices Consider the Limits of Judicial Review in Latest Immigration Case at...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday in a case that raises a critical question of whether a federal court can review a noncitizen’s eligibility for certain types of discretionary immigration...
View ArticleSupreme Court Hears Arguments Addressing the Legality of Detention Without Bond
Written by Caroline Walters and Kate Melloy Goettel This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two related immigration cases. Each asks whether certain noncitizens are entitled to bond...
View ArticleHow Would Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Handle Immigration Cases?
President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court. With nearly a decade as a federal judge, Judge Jackson’s record...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Have Harmful Ripple Effects...
Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, could have damaging effects to immigrant rights secured through the courts. The draft...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rejects Review Over Factual Questions in Immigration Removal...
The Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision on May 16 rejecting federal court review of fact-finding done by immigration courts. The Court’s reasoning could have wide-ranging impacts on many more types of...
View ArticleSupreme Court Permits Biden to Terminate ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program
Almost a year after the Supreme Court allowed a federal judge in Texas to order the Biden administration to restart the so-called “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP), the Supreme Court ruled in the...
View ArticleImmigrant Rights Look Very Different After the Latest Supreme Court Term
Recent decisions by the Supreme Court have roiled the immigrant rights community. Though many decisions weren’t surprising given the conservative majority on the Court, the decisions touch on a wide...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Takes on Enforcement Priorities and Other Immigration...
The Supreme Court will tackle more hot button immigration issues in its 2022 – 2023 term. Front and center is the Biden administration’s effort to set immigration enforcement priorities. But the Court...
View ArticleSupreme Court Pauses Oral Arguments in Title 42 Case – What’s next?
In December 2022, the Supreme Court stepped in to keep Title 42 (the pandemic health policy that has allowed the United States to carry out over 2.5 million expulsions since March 2020) in effect,...
View ArticleIs Chevron deference on the Supreme Court’s chopping block?
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide a case that asks the Court to overturn Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council—an influential decision that requires courts to defer to federal agencies’...
View ArticleSupreme Court Allows Biden Administration to Reinstitute Its Immigration...
Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in U.S. v. Texas, which allows the Biden administration to resume its implementation of guidelines for immigration enforcement within the interior...
View ArticleSupreme Court Refuses to Narrow Criminal Grounds of Removability
In a split decision issued on June 22, the Supreme Court ruled against two noncitizens seeking to overturn agency findings that their state criminal convictions qualified as “aggravated felonies.”...
View ArticleLaw Criminalizing ‘Encouragement or Inducement’ of Immigrants to Live in the...
Written by Kelly Chauvin, Summer 2023 Legal Intern for the American Immigration Council Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a section of immigration law that forbids “encourag[ing] or...
View ArticleSCOTUS to Decide When Courts Can Review Decisions about Immigration Relief…...
Families are complicated. Especially during the holidays, that’s something we can all agree on. But most of us can’t – or will never have to – imagine being forcibly separated from our closest...
View ArticleBiden Administration Can Remove Texas’ Razor Wire Barrier at the Border,...
Buoy barriers with chainsaw devices in the Rio Grande river. Coils of concertina wire along the riverbank. Armored Humvees blocking access roads. Piles of dirt rendering gates unusable. Governor Greg...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules in Favor of Judicial Review of Mixed Questions, Even...
The Supreme Court issued an important victory for noncitizens seeking cancellation of removal and the principle of judicial review of agency action on March 19. And despite the current court’s tenuous...
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