Florida recounts bring back memories

November 12, 2018 Leave a comment

Welcome to Monday, the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Epperson v. Arkansas decision striking down as unconstitutional a state law that prohibited teaching evolution in public schools. Here are some news items to get your week started. — ...

Tagged with: Big 10 bush v. gore first amendment illegal immigration law schools

Lawyer says his family trumps the president

July 2, 2018 Leave a comment

Trump lawyer says family first heads news items including detained mothers write of children, law firms going green get more green and communication is key.

Tagged with: Donald Trump environmental law illegal immigration Sam Walton walmart

Sessions threatens Baltimore with loss of crime-fighting help

August 3, 2017 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2017 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in Columbus, Ohio. Sessions moved Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, to again punish so-called sanctuary cities, this time threatening to deny federal crime-fighting resources to four cities beset by violence if they don’t step up efforts to help detain and deport people living in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions moved Thursday to again punish so-called sanctuary cities, this time threatening to deny federal crime-fighting resources to four cities beset by violence if they don’t step up efforts to help detain and deport people living ...

Tagged with: Baltimore illegal immigration Jeff Sessions sanctuary cities

Immigrant arrests soar under Trump, fewer deported

May 17, 2017 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump sits at his desk after a meeting with Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, left, and members of his staff in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Just three weeks into his administration, Trump and his allies are acting quickly to dismantle a web of regulations the government passed after the 2008 financial crisis to tighten oversight of banks and protect consumers and taxpayers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Immigration arrests increased by nearly 40 percent in early 2017 as newly emboldened agents under President Donald Trump detained more than 40,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally — with a renewed focus on immigrants without criminal convictions. ...

Tagged with: Donald Trump illegal immigration

Son of Oliver North’s Iran-Contra counsel lands in court

November 21, 2016 Leave a comment

Brendan Sullivan's son becoming a litigant leads news summary including California lawyers' dues, a foot-fetish felony and collegiate illegal immigrants.

Tagged with: foot fetish illegal immigration Rebecca Felton

Ex-Judge Nalley faces federal civil-rights charge

February 1, 2016 Leave a comment

Former Maryland judge faces civil-rights charge heads news summary including illegal betting, undocumented immigrants and police collecting debts.

Tagged with: illegal immigration super bowl Supreme Court

NYC woman pleads not guilty in fake-marriages case

April 10, 2015 Leave a comment

Liana Barrientos, right, during her arraignment Friday at the Bronx Supreme Court in New York. Barrientos is accused of marrying 10 times over an 11-year period without ever getting a divorce. (AP Photo)

A woman tied the knot 10 times in an immigration scam and is still listed as married to four of the men, including one who was deported because of threats against the United States, prosecutors said Friday.

Tagged with: illegal immigration marriage

Justice Dept. to appeal stay of immigration order

February 17, 2015 Leave a comment

U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, left, joins with Filemon B. Vela Jr. and Blanca Vela for the Pledge of Allegiance during the courthouse naming ceremony in Brownsville, Texas, in this Associated Press photo from November 2005. On Monday, Hanen temporarily blocked President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, giving a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop the orders. (AP Photo/The Brownsville Herald, Brad Doherty, File)

The White House promised an appeal Tuesday after a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration and gave a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit aiming to permanently stop the orders.

Tagged with: Barack Obama deportation federal court illegal immigration

Md. arrests spur lawsuit over immigrant license data

December 17, 2014 Leave a comment

Immigrant advocates filed a lawsuit Wednesday over concerns that federal immigration agents could use state driver’s license databases to track down people for deportation.

Tagged with: illegal immigration legal news

Help ahead for unaccompanied minors

October 23, 2014 Leave a comment

Adonia Simpson, managing attorney of immigration legal services at the Catholic Charities’ Esperanza Center in Baltimore, says the pretrial injunction does not affect the president’s call to prioritize the deportation of criminals. ‘That is what’s untouched by the decision,’ Simpson says. ‘As attorneys, we still have the argument that certain people are not a priority … We would argue that their cases should be administratively closed.’ (File photo)

Thousands of Central American children have crossed the southern border in the past year, many fleeing violence in their home countries, only to face complicated immigration proceedings without an attorney by their side.