March 07, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent rejection of President Donald Trump's bid to keep frozen nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding gave court watchers a glimpse of a coalition majority that could end up thwarting some of the president's more aggressive and novel attempts to expand executive power.
January 22, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that federal border agents can remove razor wire fencing installed by Texas along the Mexico border, vacating a Fifth Circuit order that the Biden administration argued led to the deaths of several migrants.
January 18, 2024
Texas said it isn't true that armed troops prevented federal agents from providing emergency aid to migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border last week, and told the U.S. Supreme Court that the Biden administration's inaccurate depiction of the incident couldn't justify removing barriers installed by the state.
January 16, 2024
The Biden administration has told the U.S. Supreme Court that recent migrant drownings in the Rio Grande only underscore the urgency of its effort to undo a Fifth Circuit order blocking federal officials from interfering with Texas' border barriers.
January 12, 2024
The Biden administration told the U.S. Supreme Court early Friday that Texas was blocking border agents from accessing U.S.-Mexico border areas used to monitor migrant safety, saying Texas' actions warrant nixing an injunction prohibiting agents from disturbing Texas' concertina-wire barriers.
January 10, 2024
The Immigration Reform Law Institute has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a Fifth Circuit decision allowing Texas to keep barbed wire along the southern border, saying the fence does not interfere with federal agents' enforcement of immigration law.
January 09, 2024
Texas urged the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to deny the Biden administration's emergency application to vacate a Fifth Circuit order barring federal agents from disturbing wire border barriers, arguing the federal government is belatedly trying to reformulate the case.
January 02, 2024
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to vacate a Fifth Circuit order prohibiting border patrol agents from removing razor wire fencing installed by Texas along the Mexico border, arguing the appellate court's decision wrongly places state law above federal law.