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Ten years prior, the Tenth Circuit had held that the statute allowing adjustment of status, even though an applicant had been unlawfully present in the United States for a year and had subsequently reentered without inspection, prevailed over the conflicting statute. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 5:43 am by Mark Walsh
” “Today I am keeping another promise to the American people by nominating Judge Neil Gorsuch of the United States Supreme Court to be of the United States Supreme Court,” Trump says, letting his mangled sentence pass without attempting to correct it. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 5:03 am by Heather Douglas
Below is the full text of the White House statement The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 4:30 am by Michael Price
As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee put it: For many years, the United States has embarrassed itself by excluding prominent foreigners from visiting the United States solely because of their political beliefs. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 3:59 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Via The Atlantic: “President Trump fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates only hours after she instructed Justice Department lawyers not to defend his controversial executive order restricting Muslim travel and immigration to the United States, escalating a growing political crisis that has consumed his early presidency. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 10:31 am by Kent Scheidegger
  "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 7:22 am by Ken White
The Attorney General of the United States swears an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, not an oath of loyalty to the president. [read post]
§ 1801(g) defines the Attorney General as the Attorney General of the United States (or Acting Attorney General), the Deputy Attorney General, or, upon the designation of the Attorney General, the Assistant Attorney General designated as the Assistant Attorney General for National Security under section 507A of title 28. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 7:27 pm by Michael Froomkin
In so doing, he (quite legally) bypassed the default line of succession otherwise provided for in Executive Order 13762 (Jan. 13, 2017) signed by President Obama, which had the next three people eligible to be acting AG as (a) United States Attorney for the District of Columbia; (b) United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; and (c) United States Attorney for the Central District of… [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 6:32 pm by Jack Goldsmith
”  The Attorney General’s core responsibilities include supervising DOJ, providing legal advice to the rest of the Executive Branch, and “[r]epresent[ing] the United States in legal matters generally. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 4:23 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Follow up to previous posting of sources on the immigration ban order signed by President Trump on January 27, 2017: Via LawFare – Full Text of Draft Dissent Channel Memo on Trump Refugee and Visa Order: “Numerous Foreign Service officers and other diplomats have drafted a dissent memo expressing opposition to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning refugees and immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the… [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 10:08 am by Barbara S. Mishkin
Circuit by the Democratic Attorneys General of 16 states and the District of Columbia. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 9:42 am by Quinta Jurecic
This document envisions an Air Force where Airmen and autonomous systems work together as a team to meet a variety of challenges currently facing the United States, such as cyber-attacks, anti-access/area denial strategies, and attacks on space-based assets. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 4:27 am by SHG
This “not ready for prime time” approach to running the United States doesn’t work, even if it didn’t make your life unhappy. [read post]
29 Jan 2017, 6:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Reduce drug penalties, expand treatment, opportunities for addictsTreatment, not incarceration, is key to reducing drug-related crime, wrote the executive director of Austin Recovery in a column calling for reducing penalties for low-level drug possession from a state-jail felony to a misdemeanor. [read post]