President Trump’s three first-term Supreme Court picks have moved the court’s jurisprudence to the right on issues like abortion and gerrymandering. But they have sometimes voted against his sweeping second-term agenda.
Judge Patrick J. Schiltz had warned that the administration’s actions “created a grave threat to the rule of law.” The attorney general accused him of “obvious bias.”
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in his courtroom. A former clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court, he does not have the profile of a jurist likely to engage in a high-stakes standoff with the executive branch.
For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.
Judge Reed O’Connor in 2018. He has built a reputation as a conservative stalwart and became the chief judge of the Northern District of Texas last August.
A Fourth Circuit panel ordered the case to be dismissed, citing a new Supreme Court ruling limiting the ability of foreign citizens to sue in U.S. court.
Travelers arriving from international flights outside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection exit at Kennedy International Airport in New York last year.
A federal appeals court panel backed a lower court’s ruling, and made it likely that the Supreme Court will decide the case. But the decision does not mean construction will halt immediately.
The rulings deepen a split across the judiciary, making it more likely that the Supreme Court will consider the legality of detaining undocumented immigrants indefinitely.
Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and the lead sponsor of a new bipartisan bill, said the purpose of the proposed law was to “ensure our federal courthouses remain safe, secure and operating effectively for those who work in and visit them.”
Undrinkable water. Leaks. Mold. Federal courthouses need billions of dollars in repairs, and judges say the General Services Administration is a bad landlord.
Inside the modernist, steel-and-glass exterior of the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago, judges say that longstanding maintenance problems are interfering with the performance of their duties.
Two cases to be heard in the fall challenge legality of state and local bans on the weapons, which are popular with gun owners and have been used in mass shootings.
The new case does not directly address the role of the federal government in demanding proof of citizenship as President Trump has pushed for, but it could lead to states being granted more power to police their own voter rolls.
More than 100 onlookers packed a ceremonial courtroom for legal arguments before an appeals court about the presentation of history at George Washington’s former residence.
Empty plaques hang where signs about slavery were removed at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia earlier this year. Some of the placards and videos are now back in place at the site.
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