UPDATED  Tuesday 3:16 p.m.   The Trump legal team filed its reply brief Tuesday afternoon, renewing its plea to continue excluding the 24,000 refugees.  It argued that the Supreme Court is in the best position to interpret what its prior orders mean on that issue. This filing now sets the stage for the Justices to… Read More

UPDATED Monday 2:21 p.m.   Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Monday afternoon blocked the lower court order on admission of refugees until the state of Hawaii files a response, due tomorrow at noon. Arguing that a federal appeals court is defying the Supreme Court on immigration, the Trump Administration asked the Justices on Monday to allow it to… Read More

Rejecting the Trump Administration’s latest attempt to curb immigration to the U.S. for Mideast nationals and for refugees from around the globe, a federal appeals court on Thursday gave a broad reading on who may enter despite the President’s executive order.  The Justice Department promptly vowed to take the issue back to the Supreme Court…. Read More

Lawyers for a Mexican-born college student who has taken part in the “DACA” program sparing young undocumented immigrants from deportation on Tuesday launched an attempt to overturn the Trump Administration’s plan to end those benefits.  The new maneuver seeks to convert an existing federal court lawsuit into a broad constitutional challenge aimed at saving the… Read More

Public figures at national and state government levels are maneuvering for position in the final hours before the so-called “DACA” controversy reaches a potentially critical point on Tuesday.  The drama over what to do with some 800,000 young people who entered the U.S. illegally as children and now may face deportation will not unfold all… Read More

All three judges on a federal appeals court displayed obvious skepticism at a Monday hearing about the Trump Administration’s attempt to defend both of the restrictions it wants to place on U.S. entry by foreign nationals from Mideast nations and on refugees from any foreign lands.  And two of the judges suggested that an Administration… Read More

The Trump Administration, insisting that the presidential order limiting entry to the U.S. of foreign nationals from Mideast nations “is not a so-called ‘Muslim ban,’ ” urged the Supreme Court on Thursday evening to throw out without a decision two major cases pursued by challengers to the restrictions. The 84-page brief was the first document… Read More

UPDATED 10:32 p.m.  The three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court has decided, after all, to hold a hearing on this controversy.  In an order Wednesday evening, it set that hearing for August 28.) The Trump Administration’s legal team indicated on Wednesday that it will take the heated controversy over immigration back to the Supreme… Read More

Challengers to President Trump’s restrictions on immigrants from Mideast nations and limits on refugee arrivals accused the Administration on Thursday of continuing to defy the Supreme Court by insisting on more power to exclude foreign nationals than the Justices have given it. In a new filing in a federal appeals court, the state of Hawaii… Read More

The long-planned, and eagerly awaited, electronic publication of the filings in Supreme Court cases by the Court will arrive on November 13, the Court announced Thursday in a press release. For the first time, the Court itself will make the petitions and briefs available online, and without cost to the public. The Court has never… Read More