Lyle Denniston

Jun 16 2017

Government wipes out major Obama immigration order

The Trump Administration late Thursday gave itself permission to deport more than 4 million undocumented immigrants, the parents of children who are U.S. citizens or have a legal right to permanently stay in the country. The parents previously had been protected by the Obama Administration. The action nullified a major part of President Obama’s deferred… Read More

Jun 15 2017

Justice Gorsuch joins the court – again

In a nine-minute, tightly choreographed ritual, Neil M. Gorsuch took the oath of office again as a Supreme Court Justice, with President Trump and the First Lady watching silently in a front row in the VIP section of the court’s ornate chamber.  At the end of the oath, he recited the words, “So help me… Read More

Jun 14 2017

President acts to keep immigration order alive

President Trump moved on Wednesday to keep his restrictions on immigration in operation, if the Supreme Court now allows government officials to start enforcing those limits. In a new presidential order, issued to clear up an ambiguity that had surfaced in court cases, the President extended the planned expiration dates for the restrictions. As a result,… Read More

Jun 13 2017

Timing gets tighter on immigration review

The Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon ordered a new round of legal briefs in the controversy over President Trump’s executive order seeking to impose new immigration restrictions, giving itself the option of considering on June 22 what to do with the two cases before it.  If the court were to grant review after that private… Read More

Jun 13 2017

Government offers timetable on immigration cases (UPDATED)

UPDATED 5:27 p,m,   Hawaii’s lawyers urged the Supreme Court not to allow so many additional briefs, but did not resist having all further briefs submitted for the Justices’ consideration on June 22.  The letter is here. Trump Administration lawyers asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to arrange a schedule to have the Justices consider… Read More

Jun 12 2017

Trump immigration order blocked again, more broadly

Declaring that government policy on immigration “is not a one-person show,” a federal appeals court on Monday upheld all of the key parts of a federal judge’s order barring enforcement of President Trump’s new limits on immigration.  It said the president had exceeded the authority that Congress had given him to limit entry of foreign… Read More

Jun 9 2017

Dispute over Giuliani memo put on hold

Civil rights groups were stalled on Friday in their effort to force disclosure of a memo that President Trump has said helped him to change the approach on immigration restrictions so that his action could survive legal challenges.   A federal judge in Detroit, citing the fact that the constitutional dispute over Trump’s executive order… Read More

Jun 7 2017

Answers, and new questions, on partisan gerrymandering

Both sides in a new Supreme Court test case on partisan gerrymandering – drawing new election districts to favor one party – on Tuesday answered the Justices’ questions about whether the case should stay alive, disagreeing sharply on that. But they also may have raised a broad new question about what voters challenging such partisan-driven… Read More

Jun 6 2017

New challenge to labor union support fees

A right-to-work advocacy group, renewing a long-running fight over labor union support fees assessed from non-union workers, asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to strike down the charges as unconstitutional, when imposed on workers in government jobs. That is the issue that split the court 4-to-4 in March of last year, when there were only… Read More

Jun 6 2017

President Trump redefines the role of legal client

 Lawyers, well aware that handling a complex legal case is not for amateurs, have long believed in an old saying (more colorful than this) that clients who represent themselves take real risks.  On Monday, President Trump dispensed some legal advice to the lawyers representing him, and they may now have to try to recover.  Their… Read More

Lyle Denniston continues to write about the U.S. Supreme Court, although he “retired” at the end of 2019 following more than six decades on that news beat. He was there for three revolutions – civil rights, women’s rights, and gay rights – and the start of a fourth, on transgender rights. His career of following the law began at the Otoe County Courthouse in his hometown, Nebraska City, Nebraska, in the fall of 1948. His online, eight-week, college-level course – “The Supreme Court and American Politics” – is available from the University of Baltimore Law School, and it is free.

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