Due Process
Politicians are abandoning due process, a core American value
The U.S. is a nation of symbols: the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, baseball, apple pie. One symbol, however, has taken a beating lately, though it represents the core of the American project. Lady Justice predates the…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Back in the United States
Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (NA) Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia—illegally deported by the Trump Administration to imprisonment in El Salvador without any due process—is now back in the US. After the Supreme Court ruled…
Charging a runner for using an unapproved trail defies Trump’s overcriminalization order
When the federal government decided to prosecute mountain runner Michelino Sunseri for using an unauthorized trail while setting a record for ascending and descending Grand Teton in September 2024, it seemed like a good…
Federal judge orders relief for alleged gang members deported and imprisoned without due process
On April 7 in Trump v. J.G.G., the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that foreign nationals who allegedly are subject to immediate deportation as "alien enemies" have a due process right to contest that…
First Circuit Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Federal Marijuana Prohibition
In 2005, in Gonzales v. Raich, the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the federal prohibition of the cultivation, distribution, and possession of marijuana, even where legal under state law for medicinal…
Nashville boy arrested for social post says he tried to warn of shooting
After posting a screenshot of two people planning to "shoot up" a Nashville school, a 12-year-old DuPont Tyler Middle School student was arrested and charged with threats of mass violence. Although his charges were…
Immigrants are being denied legal access at detention centers
A group of civil rights and legal organizations say immigrant detainees being held at two federal detention centers are being denied their constitutional right to legal counsel. One of those detention centers is a Miami…
Asylum case deals Trump yet another loss on due process
The Trump administration this week formally agreed to comply with a ruling that ordered it to facilitate the return of a migrant who was unlawfully deported—in what was another loss for the government as it attempts to…
Federal judge lists 8 ways Trump violated the Constitution by punishing a law firm
After President Donald Trump began penalizing major law firms that had offended him in one way or another last February, nine of them chose to surrender rather than fight. They agreed to humiliating concessions that included…
Federal judge blocks Trump initiative targeting foreign student visas
Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) suddenly terminated about 4,700 records in the database of foreign students with F-1 visas authorizing them to attend American universities. That move, which sowed panic…
TRENDING
