Jack Birle

3 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Jack Birle

The Justice Department returned to the Supreme Court Tuesday to ask the justices to clarify their order allowing deportations of illegal immigrants to “third countries” for now, one day after a district judge said a group of illegal immigrants were still barred from being deported to South Sudan despite the high court’s order.

3 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Jack Birle

Three years after the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the battle over abortion access has splintered into a new era of legal, legislative, and political fights, proving that the end of Roe was only the beginning of a broader policy war. This Washington Examiner series, Aftershocks of Dobbs, examines how activists, lawmakers, and courts are driving the next phase of that fight. Part 1 is on the pending legal battles.

4 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Jack Birle

Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s (D-CA) lawyers argued to a federal judge Monday that the lower court still has some authority to block President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in Los Angeles, despite an appeals court blocking a previous order from that judge, which ordered Trump return control of the California National Guard to Newsom.

4 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Jack Birle

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked the Supreme Court on Monday to pause a lower court’s order blocking a state law that makes it a misdemeanor for an illegal immigrant to be present in the Sunshine State. Uthmeier filed a petition to the high court asking for a stay pending appeal of District Judge Kathleen Williams’s preliminary injunction blocking the law, after a federal appeals court denied the request earlier this month.

5 days ago | denvergazette.com | Jack Birle

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case from Virginia officials seeking to thwart a lawsuit challenging the commonwealth's permanent ban on convicted felons from voting in elections. The high court released its decision not to hear the case as part of its orders list Monday, rejecting a petition that was brought to the justices in March. With the rejection of the appeal from Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, the lawsuit will now proceed toward a trial in federal district court.