Republican officials from twenty-six states and a small business advocacy group asked the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to strike down the entire 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
U.S. Sen. Al Franken called for an “explicit ban” on discrimination against LGBT students in a civil rights hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
Could Colorado State employees who work in the regulatory end of the medical marijuana business be prosecuted for their role in what the federal government increasingly seems to view as an illegal enterprise?
According to Department of Justice attorneys in Washington State, it is not outside the realm of possibility. More…
The U.S. Department of Justice issued letters to the attorneys general of all 50 states as well as U.S. territories in hopes of ending the exclusion of individuals with HIV and AIDS, covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, from occupational training and state licensing.
The ADA provides federal civil More…
The Justice Department has sworn in 23 new immigration judges, increasing the number of judges by about 10 percent in one day, according to a post Tuesday on the DOJ website. (The post, strangely, does not say what day the justices were sworn in, noting only that it More…
San Francisco won’t be opting out of Secure Communities, officials said today after a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The county leadership voted to be removed from the immigration enforcement program earlier this year and was given steps for removal — beginning with a meeting like the More…
Today’s the big day for Arizona immigration law SB 1070: The Ninth Circuit Court of appeals will hear debate over the law today, with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) present to represent the state and supporters of the law. Brewer is asking the panel of three judges to More…
Leading up the the first appeal hearings next week on Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law, the East Valley Tribune has a piece breaking down some of the possible biases of the three judges who will hear the case brought by the Justice Department. As with most More…
Today in news too bizarre to skip: Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff who makes illegal immigrant detainees wear pink underwear as a humiliation tactic, gave Sarah Palin a pair of pink underwear last week to welcome her to Phoenix.
Arpaio became famous for his purposefully harsh treatment of More…
Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce (R) is once again teaming up with Kris Kobach, an attorney running for Kansas Secretary of State, to write a new bill cracking down on illegal immigration in Arizona. The two worked together to draft SB 1070, a much-contested anti-illegal immigration law requiring police to More…
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