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DOJ Orders Federal Prosecutors to Crack Down on Birth Tourism Schemes Nationwide…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is directing federal prosecutors across the country to step up investigations and prosecutions of so-called birth tourism schemes, arguing that the practice exploits the U.S. immigration system and often involves visa fraud and other federal crimes.
In a memo sent out Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General Colin McDonald ordered federal prosecutors across the country to team up with Homeland Security and make these cases a priority.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship
The president’s stalled executive order seeks to exclude children of illegal immigrants from automatic citizenship at birth.
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Supreme Court Rules on State Laws Excluding Men From Women’s Sports
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled, 6-3, in favor of a West Virginia law preventing men from competing in women’s sports. “The question before the Court is: Under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, may schools maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females? In other words, may schools determine…
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HOA Threatens Fines Over American Flags Ahead Of July 4, Homeowners Say
‘The law is crystal clear’
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Ketanji’s Tortured Logic…
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined two other justices in a strong dissent to the court’s Tuesday decision that states can bar transgender athletes from girls’ sports and insisted that Title IX “cannot plausibly” mean that “sex” only refers to a student’s birth gender.
Writing for the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the court could not require state sports authorities to make athlete-by-athlete determinations about whether a transgender girl has any male-based physical advantages in sports.
Alito Blasts ‘Serious Mistake’…
Barbara, the justices agreed with the challengers, as well as all of the lower courts around the country that have considered the issue, that Trump’s order cannot be reconciled with the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which confers citizenship on anyone “born … in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
Faced with the prospect that Trump’s order could be on hold indefinitely, the Trump administration came to the Supreme Court last spring, asking the justices to weigh in on whether the lower courts can issue “universal” or “nationwide” injunctions – orders that bar the enforcement of laws or policies anywhere in the country.
Supreme Court Brings Geofence Warrants Under Fourth Amendment
The Supreme Court ruled that police conduct a constitutional search when they obtain a person’s data through a geofence warrant. …
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