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District courts have dismissed the administration’s efforts to detain virtually all undocumented immigrants without a bond hearing while they await deportation proceedings.
The meaning and application of due process has become a crucial issue in the US, most often with respect to the Trump administration’s migrant deportation efforts.
The Trump administration claims that judges’ orders in the cases of immigrants deported to a prison in El Salvador intrude on the president’s right to conduct foreign policy.
An immigration historian says removal orders targeting student activists echo America’s long past of jailing and expelling immigrants because of their race, what they say or believe – or all three.
Habeas corpus – a Latin phrase meaning ‘you shall have the body’ – protects any person, whether citizen or not, from being illegally confined. It’s a crucial element of US law.
The high court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego García, to the United States.
Can both sides legitimately say they won a Supreme Court victory?
A scholar explains why the Trump administration’s actions may violate the constitution.
The very low public trust in the Ghanaian police suggests a crisis of legitimacy.
A new study reveals wide disparities among state-issued Clean Water Act fines, and even among federal fines from regions to region. A law professor explains why it may be illegal.
The US has frozen tens of billions of dollars worth of assets belonging to Russians and their government. A legal scholar explains why confiscating them is a bit trickier.
A 6-3 conservative court will hear a broader range of controversial cases, shift interpretations of individual rights and put more pressure on local democracy to make policy decisions.
By publishing photos and details of two teenagers who allegedly illegally went into Queensland from Victoria, the media have stripped them of due process and encouraged vigilantism.
A new report on Mexicans in the US paints a troubling picture about the treatment of the country’s largest immigrant group.
On Dec. 10, 1903, the US military leased 45 square miles of Cuban territory to build a naval base. How did Guantanamo Bay become an infamous prison for alleged terrorists?
Politicians on the left and right object to this practice, which the Trump administration is championing.
A constitutional scholar considers the legal arguments that could undo Trump’s executive order barring travel by residents of seven Muslim majority countries.
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Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee
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Graduate Researcher at Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Dean and Professor of Law, Drake University
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Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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John C. Jeffries Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law and David H. Ibbeken '71 Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Fellow and Graduate Researcher at Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of History, Tulane University
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Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
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Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California