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April 02, 2026
The Trump administration called on the D.C. Circuit to fully unravel an injunction barring the deployment of the D.C. National Guard and other states' National Guards in the District of Columbia, arguing that the deployments are "plainly lawful."
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April 02, 2026
A coalition of advocacy groups urged a D.C. federal judge to block parts of an executive order President Donald Trump issued to limit mail voting, calling it an unconstitutional intrusion into election regulations that promises to burden people's right to vote.
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April 02, 2026
Several Minnesota residents sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, accusing the agency of trampling the Fourth Amendment by allowing officers to forcibly enter private homes without judicial warrants.
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April 02, 2026
A California federal judge has ruled that Border Patrol defied the court's April 2025 injunction barring warrantless arrests and detentive stops without probable cause and reasonable suspicion, finding that July arrests at a Home Depot in Sacramento flouted the court's order.
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April 02, 2026
A group of voting rights advocates on Thursday hit President Donald Trump with a lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court over his recent executive order aimed at limiting voting by mail, panning the directive as a bid to "displace state election laws by executive fiat."
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April 01, 2026
Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident targeted for deportation, asked a Third Circuit judge, U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove, to recuse himself from en banc review of a decision allowing for Khalil's detention, saying Wednesday the judge was likely involved in decisions related to the case while at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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April 01, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday affirmed First Amendment protections for journalists, legal observers and protesters in a case brought by individuals injured by U.S. Department of Homeland Security officers during Los Angeles-area immigration raid protests, but said a preliminary injunction issued by a California federal judge had to be narrowed.
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April 01, 2026
A TikTok creator urged a Texas federal court to toss a defamation suit brought by Houston-based Meneses Law PLLC, arguing that her posts were rhetorical condemnation based on public controversy surrounding the law firm and that the court has no personal jurisdiction over her.
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April 01, 2026
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told a California federal judge that immigrants at a detention facility in the Mojave Desert are looking to rewrite the agency's contract with GEO Group Inc. by requesting an injunction to rectify the facility's "intolerable conditions."
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April 01, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Harvard Medical School researcher and Russian national charged with smuggling frog embryo specimens can see emails and other documents regarding the government's decision to prosecute her, citing evidence the case was "vindictive."
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April 01, 2026
Michigan and one of its cities asked a federal court Wednesday to temporarily block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from converting a warehouse into a detention center, arguing the federal government didn't notify local officials about the project and didn't conduct required environmental reviews.
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April 01, 2026
The Ninth Circuit has stayed a California federal judge's ruling vacating a Board of Immigration Appeals decision stripping immigration judges of authority to grant release on bond, finding the district court likely exceeded its authority in doing so.
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April 01, 2026
Republican leadership in the House and Senate are on board with President Donald Trump's request Wednesday to send him a bill by June 1 to fund the entire U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.
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April 01, 2026
A federal judge has tossed the Trump administration's challenge of sanctuary laws in Colorado and Denver, holding that any ruling in the administration's favor would violate the Constitution by allowing the federal government to compel states and cities to help enforce its immigration priorities.
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April 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed dubious Wednesday of President Donald Trump's attempt to limit birthright citizenship, with the majority of justices struggling to see how the administration's argument was supported by the constitutional text.
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March 31, 2026
Before taking inactive status late last year, U.S. District Judge William H. Alsup presided over historic litigation in California's Northern District for 26 years, arriving at his San Francisco chambers every weekday before dawn to prepare for the day's work.
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March 31, 2026
The Third Circuit said Tuesday that further review was needed in the case of a Dominican national facing deportation to hash out whether his removal could be canceled based on federal law protecting immigrants from abuse from lawful permanent residents or citizens.
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March 31, 2026
Two new Washington laws aim to protect immigrants in the workplace, including by requiring employers to notify workers of upcoming immigration enforcement activity and by allowing state government workers to donate their leave time to coworkers facing immigration actions or hate crimes.
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March 31, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration has broad authority to mass terminate parole, but failed to justify canceling parole for hundreds of thousands of noncitizens who used a government app to be admitted to the U.S.
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March 31, 2026
A Seventh Circuit panel admonished an attorney and former chief federal immigration judge for submitting a brief citing two nonexistent cases and a false quotation, saying while such errors can be "tell-tale signs" of AI hallucinations, her denial she used AI is "plausible" and the court won't consider further sanctions.
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March 31, 2026
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, is looking for assurances from the newly installed secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, that he will honor his apparent pledge to rescind a policy that allows immigration agents to enter private property without a judicial warrant.
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March 31, 2026
U.S. Customs and Border Protection violated federal contracting law when it awarded a $641 million contract to construct waterborne barriers in the Rio Grande Valley without conducting a competitive bidding process, a joint venture told the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Monday.
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March 31, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge overstepped his authority in ordering the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide deportees being sent to so-called "third" countries where they have no prior ties an opportunity to challenge their destinations, the Trump administration told the First Circuit.
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March 31, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday denied a request from environmental nonprofits to allow a lower court's order halting operations of a Florida immigrant detention facility, saying in a split decision that new issues were improperly raised for the first time.
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March 31, 2026
Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC has announced that an immigration attorney with nearly 30 years of experience has joined the firm's Boston office as senior counsel, along with three members of support staff.