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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

“Justices Alarmed by Government’s Hard-Line Stance in Citizenship Case”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court fears giving government too much power to revoke naturalization.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Justices Challenge Government Position on Stripping Citizenship for Immigrants Over Small Lies; Justice Department lawyer argued that any false statement on naturalization form, even about one’s weight, could cost an individual his citizenship.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article headlined “Lose citizenship for fibbing? Supreme Court justices fume.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Justices seem to favor limits on revoking US citizenship.”

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. chief justice alarmed at Trump administration immigration case stance.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Maslenjak v. United States, No. 16-309.

Posted at 9:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Defiant Trump Vows to Take Immigration Case to Supreme Court”: Peter Baker of The New York Times has an article that begins, “President Trump vowed on Wednesday to challenge California jurisdictions all the way to the Supreme Court after a federal judge there stopped him from withholding funds to penalize them for shielding illegal immigrants.”

Posted at 8:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Trump Alienated the Judiciary: A ruling against his executive order on sanctuary cities is the latest rebuke dealt to the president by a federal judge.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 10:10 AM by Howard Bashman