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Trump Files Suit Against House Ways and Means Committee and New York State Officials
President Trump filed a lawsuit against the House Committee on Ways and Means, New York State’s attorney general and the state’s tax commissioner on Tuesday, to block the release of multiple years of his... -
Attorney General Delivers Address on Encryption at Cybersecurity Conference
On Tuesday, July 23, Attorney General William Barr delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University. The complete speech can be read below. Good Mo... -
Department of Homeland Security Expands Expedited Removal Designation
On July 23, the Department of Homeland Security expanded the scope of its expedited removal designation pursuant to its authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Previously, for undocumented m... -
Supreme Court Filings in Emergency Wall Case
On July 12, the government filed an application before the Supreme Court for a stay pending appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Trump v. Sierra Club, concerning the president’s u... -
House Oversight Committee Requests Information on Michael Cohen Case
On Friday, July 19 House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York requesting information related to two qu... -
Unredacted Documents Released in Cohen Case
At the request of the district court, on July 17 the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York made public an unredacted status report and series of investigative materials relating to... -
Second Lawsuit Filed Against New Asylum Restrictions
Two immigration support and advocacy organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s latest restrictions on asylum, in addition to the ACLU’s lawsuit. Both the complaint and the plaintiffs’ moti... -
ACLU Sues Over Asylum Rule Change
The ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit over the Trump administration’s recently announced policy to bar asylum applications from migrants travelling... -
Trump Administration Bars Asylum for Central Americans Traveling Through Mexico
The Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security are amending their respective regulations to limit asylum claims made by any migrants who attempt to enter the United States along the southe... -
Court Denies Motion to Dismiss in Travel Ban Case
On July 10, Judge Victoria A. Roberts of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan denied the government’s motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ third amended complaint in Arab American Ci... -
Government Violated D.C. Local Rule in Concord Management Case, Court Finds
On July 1, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling in United States of America v. Concord Management & Consulting LLC (related to the Internet Research Agency case) limiting ... -
Government Will Name Flynn as Co-Conspirator in Rafiekian Case
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has unsealed a number of documents relating to the government's decision not to call Michael Flynn as a witness in the trial of Bijan Rafiekia...
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