All posts tagged "Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals"

A Trump-appointed judge used a moot deportation case to map out how a president's "invasion" declaration could end birthright citizenship.

On Thursday, the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an ACLU lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport three Venezuelans. The Trump administration deported them by saying they were members of the gang Tren de Aragua, which Trump claimed was perpetrating an "invasion."

The court called the move by the Trump administration "unobjectionable" in its opinion and dismissed the lawsuit as moot because the three had already been deported. However, in a piece for Reason published shortly after the decision, legal scholar Ilya Somin flagged an argument made by Judge James Ho that he said gives Trump a "blank check" for more sweeping actions....

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that  Texas may enforce a law passed last year which requires women seeking abortion services to undergo an invasive, medically unnecessary trans-vaginal sonogram procedure before ending their pregnancy.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's administration was "likely" later Monday to issue a reconfigured moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling, after a previous six-month freeze was blocked by a judge.

The Obama administration lost its bid Thursday to maintain a six-month moratorium on offshore deepwater drilling which a federal judge ordered to be lifted last month.