by Carolyn Classen, blogger Memorialization as a Tool for Advocacy: Integrating Local Communities into Transitional Justice Avenues of Redress As part of Genocide Awareness Week When 4 – 6 p.m., April 2, 2025 Where Kiva Room (2nd Floor) – Student Union Memorial Center A Lakin Human Rights Lecture in courtesy of The Sally & Ralph Duchin Memorial … Read more
Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog reports, Government gets green light to implement “public charge” rule pending appeals: Today a divided Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request for permission to enforce a rule known as the “public charge” rule, governing the admission of immigrants to the United States. The government had argued that it would suffer … Read more
I cautioned you yesterday against reading too much into oral argument as a predictor of how the court will rule in the DACA case, Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California (three consolidated cases for hearing). Nevertheless, the current headline at the New York Times reads, Supreme Court Appears Ready to … Read more
On Tuesday at 9:30 a.m., the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California. Issues: (1) Whether the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy is judicially reviewable; and (2) whether DHS’s decision to wind down … Read more
OMG! It appears that Donald Trump may have read something I wrote years ago and took my sarcasm seriously as a good idea: It would be a helluva lot cheaper than all the electronic surveillance, aerostat blimps and drones, and a militarized border with a double wall and flaming moat with asbestos alligators with laser … Read more