Federal Court Issues Class Action Injunction Against Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order [Updated]
This ruling was widely expected in the wake of the Supreme Court's decison barring nationwide injunctions.
This ruling was widely expected in the wake of the Supreme Court's decison barring nationwide injunctions.
A DHS video lionizing Customs and Border Protection quotes the Bible and includes a song promising that "God's gonna cut you down."
Katherine Yon Ebright and Leah Tulin of the Brennan Center make the case against judicial deference to Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
The immigration agency has reportedly gained access to a private database designed to fight insurance fraud.
More questions arise over how Florida’s newest immigration detention center is being funded by the Trump administration.
Billions upon billions of dollars are allocated for border screening technology, immigration detention facilities, more ICE agents, and building a border wall.
The government’s lawyers also say that supposedly nonexistent policy is perfectly consistent with the First Amendment.
The president is torn between the economic concerns of his supporters and the demands of immigration hardliners.
“There's no such thing as a free stadium,” says J.C. Bradbury. “You can't just pull revenue out of thin air.”
When Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick is worried about our constitutional order, we should all pay heed.
"Why not here?" says the owner of a Lebanese restaurant in Canada's semiautonomous Nunavut Territory.
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Links to some of my previous writings on these topics, which remain relevant today.
Several of the items on the Declaration's list of grievances against King George III also apply to Donald Trump today.
Despite our problems, the U.S. offers the sort of freedom, liberty, and opportunity that is anathema to many places around the world.
Class actions and Administrative Procedure Act claims can achieve much the same result as the nationwide orders that the Supreme Court rejected.
Our dreams have fallen from supersonic world travel to jailing migrants who've hurt no one.
The city's German immigrant experience suggests that immediate assimilation isn't necessary to eventual assimilation.
But, notably, the court chose not to rule on the issue of what qualifies as an "invasion."
Legal experts are concerned that immigration judges with only six weeks of training will not uphold constitutional protections for migrants.
The Justice Department cannot constitutionally prosecute a news outlet for covering the news.
Only eight days after construction began, Florida’s new immigration detention center in the Everglades is set to officially open this week.
Vance cast the tie-breaking vote for a bill that will add $4 trillion to the debt. Meanwhile, immigrants are helping to keep the federal government's fiscal house of cards propped up.
Tellingly, the president avoided defending his dubious interpretation of the 14th Amendment at the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is considering whether the president properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members.
Afghan prosecutors, interpreters, and other U.S. partners are being evicted, abandoned, or forced back into Taliban hands.
The president's cruel and pointless ban on immigration or visits from nationals of 12 countries will have no significant safety benefit for Americans.
Plus: Conservatives won big overall this year at the Supreme Court.
Reason's 2025 travel issue takes seriously the idea that the right to roam is inseparable from the right to speak, to work, to love, and to associate freely.
They face severe persecution if deported to Iran.
America is slipping steadily down the slippery slope to a surveillance state.
More government agencies are using facial recognition for enforcement than ever before.
“Federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch,” declared Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Today's Supreme Court ruling barring nationwide injunctions could empower the federal government to engage in large-scale violations of the Constitution. Exactly how bad the consequences will be depends on the extent to which other remedies can be used to forestall them.
Justice Barrett writes for the Court's majority that universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable power of federal courts.
Dismissing asylum applications for migrants who entered the U.S. unlawfully would boost immigration-related arrests, but have little impact on public safety.
That's inevitable. It should also be deeply troubling to anyone who cares about constitutional government.
The Trump administration continues its war against disfavored speech.
A new push to end work programs for international students will drive away skilled graduates and restrict U.S. innovation.
It explains how these much-maligned doctrines can be valuable tools for constraining power grabs by presidents of both parties.
The liberal justice faults the majority for leaving deportees to “suffer violence in far-flung locales.”
First-place finishes include a piece on the Dutch "dropping" rite of passage, a documentary exploring citizen journalism and free speech, and a long-form interview with exoneree Amanda Knox.
Officials at the border have the power to paw through sensitive data on your phone.
Marco Rubio’s nebulous invocation of foreign policy interests is bound to have a chilling impact on freedom of speech, which is the whole point.
The ruling includes no analysis. Justice Sotomayor's dissent has a compelling explanation of why it is wrong.
The Florida attorney general stated that the facilities will add 5,000 beds and be operational as early as the first week of July.
The recent immigration-related arrest shows that ICE is more concerned with targeting all immigrants than with ensuring public safety.