By Chris Tobias | Editorial Credit: shutterstock.com In a significant legal development, the Supreme Court temporarily halted President Biden’s latest effort to forgive tens, and possibly hundreds, of billions of dollars in student debt. This move has sparked widespread debate, as it follows the Court’s rejection of a more extensive plan last year that aimed […]
Editorial credit: Tada Images / Shutterstock.com By Suchita Mathur | Immigration Impact The Supreme Court handed a momentous victory to supporters of deregulation on June 28 in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, discarding the long-standing doctrine known as Chevron deference. The decision will almost certainly lead to a sea-change in how federal agencies are able to do their work, with […]
By Leslie Dellon | Immigration Impact In Department of State v. Munoz, the Supreme Court has chosen procedural concerns over the reality that errors by consular officers may bar U.S. citizens from residing in the United States with their noncitizen spouses. Consular nonreviewability is a judge-made doctrine. Courts have barred review of visa denials due to separation of […]
By Emma Winger | Immigration Impact The Supreme Court made an about-face on June 14, holding that immigration judges may order noncitizens deported if they do not appear for their immigration hearings even if the government never provided them with a Notice to Appear (NTA) with the date and time of their immigration hearing. Under Campos-Chaves […]
By Janet Howard In a landmark decision, the United States Supreme Court has reaffirmed the federal law that prohibits individuals convicted of domestic violence from possessing firearms. This ruling, which comes at a crucial time amidst a heated national debate over gun control and domestic violence prevention, marks a pivotal moment in the ongoing struggle […]
Justice Stephen Breyer. Editorial credit: mark reinstein / Shutterstock.com By Linda Nwoke Justice Stephen Breyer, the notable jurist and scholar, left a mark on the legal landscape of the United States while serving as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court for over 27 years. President Bill Clinton appointed him in 1994, and his […]
By Suchita Mathur | Immigration Impact 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 regard for stare decisis – the idea that “today’s Court should stand by yesterday’s decisions” – in Wilkinson v. Garland, the Supreme Court […]
By Kate Melloy Goettel and Juan Avilez | Immigration Impact A Texas law that allows local law enforcement to arrest migrants, state court judges to issue removal orders, and state officials to remove migrants to Mexico, is on its way to the Supreme Court. Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which was signed into law in […]
By Suchita Mathur | December 15, 2023 | Immigration Impact 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 relatives because an overworked immigration judge (IJ) misapplied a legal standard in deciding whether […]
By Peter Schurmann, EMS While SCOTUS is the highest court in the land, public trust in the institution has never been lower. There’s an old joke in DC about how Supreme Court Justices make the worst dates. They won’t take gifts and so insist on paying, but they don’t make that much money, so they […]