Immigration rights groups are slamming the ruling by a federal judge in Texas who has ordered a preliminary injunction against a set of immigration policy changes put forth by the Obama administration in an executive order last year. In a ruling handed down late Monday, Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court in Brownsville,…
A federal court of appeals on Wednesday issued a stay of execution for Texas death row inmate Scott Panetti just hours before the man diagnosed with severe mental illness was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. The Texas Tribune reports: A two-sentence stay was released by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in…
In a 6-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday evening blocked Wisconsin from implementing a voter ID law that would have required voters to provide photo identification before casting their ballots in the coming election. The Court, which recently allowed North Carolina officials to eliminate same-day voter registration and discount votes cast mistakenly in…
The crisis on the border has renewed debate over immigration policy. Should the government treat as refugees the children fleeing to the United States from their violent Central American homeland — or should they be returned home? For its part, the White House went on record today saying that they would not deport youth if…
