U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday formally nominated Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, moving to install his former personal lawyer as the top U.S. law enforcement official.
Tag: Constitutional Law
A federal judge on Monday struck down a $100,000 fee that U.S. President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, concluding that it constituted an unlawful tax that Congress never authorized.
Disputes involving President Trump’s policies on tariffs, immigration and firing regulatory officials have marked the court’s current term. Now they are poised to decide major “culture war” cases.
President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully barred applicants from 39 travel‑ban countries from receiving decisions on asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Friday.
President Donald Trump said he would move to nominate acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday to permanently lead the Justice Department, which would make his former personal lawyer the nation’s top law enforcement officer.
A U.S. jury’s fraud conviction of prominent investor Andrew Left this week could rewrite the playbook for activist short sellers, raising fresh questions about the line between legitimate market activism and stock manipulation.
A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday will hear a bid by Democratic-led states and voting rights groups to block U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to tighten rules for mail-in voting.
Civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit over alleged human rights abuses at the United States’ largest immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, where three people have died in the nine months since it opened.
A U.S. appeals court on Monday said President Donald Trump’s administration could for now bar transgender people from enlisting in the military, but blocked the expulsion of current service members while a lawsuit plays out.
Potential rulings in the coming weeks on mail-in ballots and an attempt to further chip away at legal limits on money in campaigns could help Republicans in the November midterms.