A federal judge in Ohio handed the Trump administration another court loss on immigration this week, ordering U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to resume processing green cards, work permits and other immigration benefit applications that had been frozen for thousands of foreign nationals already living in the country.
Former Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, 67, was sentenced Wednesday to no prison time for felony obstruction of federal immigration agents, receiving only a $5,000 fine despite facing up to five years behind bars.
A federal judge in San Francisco late Tuesday issued a nationwide injunction blocking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from making arrests at immigration courthouses, handing a significant legal setback to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement push.
A federal judge on Friday blocked the release of audio recordings tied to Special Counsel Robert Hur's classified documents investigation into former President Joe Biden, granting a temporary three-week injunction while a federal appeals court reviews Biden's legal challenge.
A conservative legal watchdog filed a judicial misconduct complaint Wednesday against U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, who in May permanently blocked President Donald Trump's effort to rename the Kennedy Center, alleging Cooper failed to recuse himself despite financial conflicts stemming from his wife's anti-Trump legal work.
A federal judge on Friday struck down a slate of Trump administration immigration policies that had blocked the processing of applications for asylum seekers worldwide and immigrants from 39 countries, ordering U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to resume adjudicating cases that had been frozen for months.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht announced Monday he is leaving the Democratic Party, saying the party now tolerates antisemitism that would have been unthinkable when he first joined it, Reuters reports.
A Biden-appointed federal judge has again halted the Trump administration's effort to end temporary protected status for Ethiopians living in the United States, blocking a policy that was supposed to take effect months ago.
By the time ICE finally got their hands on Christopher Leon Bailey last Monday, he'd already spent nearly two decades running up a criminal rap sheet that reads like a checklist for why immigration enforcement matters.
