Updated: The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to reinstate President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries.
A website created over the weekend by volunteer lawyers and software developers can connect travelers affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban with free lawyers who can help them.
Updated: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch told Sen. Richard Blumenthal that President Trump’s attacks on the judiciary are “demoralizing” and “disheartening,” according to the senator and Gorsuch aides who…
Members of a federal appeals court panel on Tuesday appeared skeptical while questioning a Justice Department lawyer about President Donald Trump’s power to enact a temporary travel ban on some…
The ABA House of Delegates today passed a resolution urging that the executive branch ensure that any executive orders concerning border security, immigration enforcement and terrorism be within the bounds…
On Friday afternoon, at the ABA Midyear Meeting in Miami, the Law Practice Division’s Futures Initiative sat down to an agenda it had planned for three months.
ABA President Linda A. Klein, speaking to the association’s House of Delegates on Monday, issued a call to arms for lawyers to defend the rule of law in response to…
The Seattle federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration is a Republican appointee who was confirmed to his judgeship in 2004 with no opposition.
A federal appeals court on Sunday refused to immediately reinstate President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States.
Updated: A Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge in Virginia on Friday that more than 100,000 visas have been revoked as a result of President Donald Trump’s order temporarily…
More than 40 lawsuits have been filed to aid people whose entry into the United States was blocked because of President Donald Trump’s immigration order last Friday.
Lawyers in Boston who are challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration have new information explaining why citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries have not been able to board planes…
The city of San Francisco on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block President Trump’s executive order that withholds federal grant money to sanctuary cities that don’t cooperate with…
The case of Hernandez v. Mesa comes amid the wider debate about illegal immigration and the call to strengthen the U.S.-Mexico border, and against a background of a troubling number of cross-border shootings by U.S. agents. Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for today.
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