Immigration courts are experiencing a massive backlog, with a 459-day average waiting time before cases are heard by a federal judge. Nearly 248,000 cases were pending by mid-June, a 33 percent increase over the number of cases pending at the end of the 2008 fiscal year, according to More…
New data came out today to reinforce the Obama administration’s claims that they are increasing immigration enforcement: Federal prosecutions in Arizona are at an all-time high, with 20,818 prosecutions filed in the state during the first eight months of the fiscal year, according to a report More…
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department today announced that it had negotiated a settlement with a major pipeline company to pay $41 million to upgrade more than 10,000 miles of oil pipeline. The settlement, Obama administration officials say, will result in better pipeline safety on the company’s pipelines. More…
A pared-down version of Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law went into effect today, less than 24 hours after a federal judge blocked its toughest provisions. Still, the law is popular — 55 percent of Americans support it, according to a recent poll — and numerous bills More…
As they gear up for the scheduled implementation of Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law tomorrow, local law enforcement officers are attempting to figure out how to enforce the new policies.
As the Justice Department prepares to argue Thursday against Arizona’s immigration law, The Associated Press takes a look into the background of the judge who will hear the case. Susan Bolton, who heard the first arguments against SB 1070 last week, is described as a “down-the-middle” More…
As a judge prepares to hear arguments on the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Arizona’s controversial immigration law next week, Politico reports on Republican efforts to kill the lawsuit. The push comes from two camps. In the House, Reps. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) and Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) collected about 30 More…
Amicus briefs seem to be a good way for Republican gubernatorial candidates to set themselves apart from the pack. After Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox filed an “friend-of-the-court” brief defending Arizona’s SB 1070 from its Justice Department legal challenge and urging others to join, Florida Attorney General Bill More…
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled today that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro ruled that the law, which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages, violated the Constitution because it interfered with a state’s right to define what constitutes a legal More…
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), an alumnus of the NBC show “Saturday Night Live,” criticized the proposed merger of NBC Universal and Comcast during his question-and-answer session today with Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.
“If the same company that runs the pipes also runs the programming, we have a problem,” he More…
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