Due Process
Markwayne Mullin’s history of condoning murder and resisting transparency makes him ill-suited to run DHS
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R–Okla.), President Donald Trump's nominee to replace Kristi Noem as secretary of homeland security, appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs today as part…
Speedway Bomber Brett Kimberlin’s Latest Lawsuit
The quotes below are from Kimberlin v. Metropolitan School Dist., decided Friday by Judge Tanya Walton Pratt (S.D. Ind.); you can see some of Kimberlin's past filings here, my posts on some of his past lawsuits here and…
Is Judge Pauline Newman Entitled to Her Day in Court?
Josh Blackman, Jonathan Adler, and I have all previously blogged (here, here, and here) about issues relating to the "stealth impeachment" of Judge Pauline Newman of the Federal Circuit. Judge Newman has been…
Trump says justices catered to ‘radical left’ by ruling against his tariffs
During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Donald Trump described the Supreme Court's rejection of his "emergency" tariffs as a "very unfortunate ruling." That was mild compared to…
Blind Rohingya refugee found dead after CBP release in Buffalo
After searching for five days, a partially blind refugee was found dead on Tuesday, only five miles from where U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents dropped him off after releasing him from custody. The discovery…
More than 18,000 habeas corpus petitions filed amid Trump’s immigration crackdown
The ancient writ of habeas corpus, which allows one to petition unlawful imprisonment to a judge, has had a banner year because of the Trump administration's mass deportation program. The Supreme Court ruled last April…
The ACLU joins the NRA in urging SCOTUS to uphold pot users’ gun rights
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), despite its name, historically has not been keen on defending the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. After the Supreme Court affirmed that right in the landmark 2008 case…
ICE whistleblower says training is ‘deficient, defective, and broken’
On Monday, an attorney and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instructor, Ryan Schwank, testified before Congress that the agency's new training program is "deficient, defective, and broken,"…
The NRA and NORML unite to oppose the federal gun ban for marijuana users
A federal law enacted in 1968, 177 years after the ratification of the Second Amendment, makes it a felony, currently punishable by up to 15 years in prison, for an "unlawful user" of "any controlled…
Federal judge slams ICE for violating nearly 100 court orders
An escalating conflict between the federal judiciary and the Trump administration led a frustrated judge in Minnesota to release a list Wednesday of nearly 100 court orders he says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
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