The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday considered a Mexican immigrant’s claim that he should not be deported for having consensual sex with his under-age girlfriend, with several justices indicating sympathy for his plight. The case involving Juan Esquivel-Quintana, a lawful permanent U.S. resident who came to the country at age 12, was argued before the eight justices as President Donald Trump’s administration plans to ramp up deportations and broaden the categories of immigrants targeted.
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Supreme Court could decide transgender case. Or not.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. WASHINGTON – Both the transgender teen who sued to use a boys’ bathroom and the Virginia school board that won’t let him still want the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling in their ongoing dispute, even after the Trump administration retreated from an Obama-era policy on bathroom use.
Supreme Court Justice Breyer talks art _ in French
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has given a talk – entirely in French – about the artistry of courtroom sketches. Holger Spamann, a Harvard Law School professor who attended the talk, says Breyer also made a case for the professionalism of judges and the importance of their detachment from politics.
Nation-Now 48 mins ago 7:20 p.m.Trump picks Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court
Nearly a full year after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death left the Supreme Court shorthanded, President Trump nominated federal appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the void Tuesday night, setting off a pitched battle over the direction of the nation’s highest court Trump was unveiling his nominee to the nation on live television from the East Room of the White House after a day filled with palace intrigue, during which the media mapped the whereabouts of Gorsuch, from Colorado, and federal appeals court Judge Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, another favorite for the seat. Gorsuch, 49, is a Scalia acolyte who believes judges should interpret laws as they are written and enforce the Constitution as the nation’s framers intended.
Trump’s Supreme Court choice comes today
Nearly a full year after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death left the Supreme Court shorthanded, President Trump is poised to nominate a replacement who’s three decades younger, setting off a pitched battle over the direction of the nation’s highest court. Trump’s Supreme Court choice comes today Nearly a full year after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death left the Supreme Court shorthanded, President Trump is poised to nominate a replacement who’s three decades younger, setting off a pitched battle over the direction of the nation’s highest court.
Supreme Court hears case on Muslims rounded up after 9/11
The US high court reviewed whether the men, who say they were held after the Al-Qaeda attack based solely on their identity as Arab Muslims, had the right to sue top US officials including then-attorney general John Ashcroft and Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller, for their allegedly illegal detention. WASHINGTON: Muslims in the United States who were rounded up and detained in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 , 2001 attacks took their case before the US Supreme Court .
The Pence Oath
News that Vice President-elect Pence will be sworn into office by Justice Clarence Thomas strikes us as a missed opportunity. Not that we lack for regard for either of them; we endorsed Mr. Pence and have backed Justice Thomas through every one of his heroic struggles.
Justice Breyer, Lochner-phobe
In several of my academic articles about the Supreme Court’s infamous 1905 decision in Lochner v. New York , I’ve somewhat cheekily described the reflexive hostility that many jurists have to Lochner as “Lochnerphobia.”