Federal appeals courts recently diverged over whether state laws mandating so-called cooling off periods for firearms purchases implicate the Second Amendment and trigger the historical analogue test set out in the US Supreme Court’s landmark Bruen ruling.
An immigration measure Texas state lawmakers passed in 2023, now set to go into effect this month, was challenged again Monday in federal court.
President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is negatively impacting some US-born workers in heavily targeted industries like construction, according to a paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Massachusetts’ high court Monday labored with whether and how to discipline a state judge who was cleared of high-profile claims she helped an immigrant evade federal agents but may have violated other judicial rules.
A panel of First Circuit judges heard arguments Monday in a suit over a Trump administration policy that denies detained noncitizens a bond hearing—an issue that’s already split the circuits.
The Trump administration lifted a visa processing freeze for foreign physicians, ending a months-long halt that had sidelined thousands of doctors and exacerbated staffing shortages at hospitals across the country.
Military lawyers may serve as special assistant US attorneys in litigation with no clear military connection, a federal judge in Minnesota ruled.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is starting to echo President Donald Trump’s aggressive anti-immigration rhetoric in response to criticism of his vaccine policy.
Federal immigration agents arrested a Nigerian national in Brooklyn late Saturday, setting off a confrontation with protesters outside a local hospital and sparking criticism from some New York City officials.
The Trump administration is opposing two fired immigration judges’ request to skip normal procedure in a bid to go straight to full federal appeals court consideration of the president’s power to remove mid-level government officials without cause.
The history of the H-1B visa from its origins in 1952, when Harry S. Truman was president, to the major developments since Trump’s “Buy American and Hire American” executive order.
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