All posts tagged "Appeals Court"

The Trump administration was dealt a major setback in its immigration plans after an appeals court torched it as Schrödinger-esque.

A Denver-based federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration's push to jail immigrants in the U.S. without a bond hearing. In his opinion, Judge Richard Federico likened the Trump administration's reasoning to a famous quantum physics paradox.

The case centered around the question of whether an immigrant living in the country's interior can be detained without a bond hearing while fighting their removal. ...

Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann said the latest decision from the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals doesn't bode well for the former president.

The public is waiting for a decision from the same court on whether Donald Trump has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution, but it ruled Tuesday that the gag order in the Jan. 6 election interference case still holds.

Trump had appealed Judge Tanya Chutkan's order, put in place after Trump posted social media messages aimed at potential witnesses. Chutkan even laughed at Trump's lawyer when he argued that the existing gag order was "working."...

A federal appeals court just heard Trump's argument that he has a constitutional right to be on Twitter — and it didn't appear to go well, according to Politico.

"A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard Trump’s lawyer contend that Twitter, now known as X, acted at the behest of members of Congress and other U.S. government officials when it deplatformed Trump in January 2021, shortly after thousands of his supporters stormed the Capitol," reported Josh Gerstein. "The company said at the time that Trump’s tweets — including one in which he declared he would not be attending Joe Biden’s inauguration — were 'highly likely' to incite further violence."

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An appeals court in New Jersey upheld an earlier court order banning a woman from writing about her husband and children on Facebook and elsewhere, saying the limitation does not infringe upon her First Amendment rights, according to NJ.com.

A federal court in Utah Sunday evening denied an emergency motion by Utah state officials seeking to delay implementation of Friday's stunning same-sex marriage ruling, paving the way for gay and lesbian couples to line up at county clerks Monday morning for marriage licenses.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday partially upheld Environmental Protection Agency regulations issued by the George W. Bush administration that set standards for ozone pollution.