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The United States v. Texas case and its relevance to the Perdomo litigation.
When an individual in the United States must identify themselves to police is not a single, nationwide rule but a patchwork of constitutional principles, state “stop-and-identify” statutes, and federa...
Federal courts and prosecutors treat 18 U.S.C. § 111 as a flexible tool to protect federal officers’ ability to perform official duties, applying it to a wide range of conduct from physical blows to o...
A sitting U.S. president suing the federal government has been effectively without precedent in , but that changed with ’s January 2026 lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury seeking at least $10 billio...
The legal bottom line: simply being present in the United States without valid immigration status is not, by itself, a federal crime—unlawful presence is generally treated as a civil immigration viola...
The ’s decision in v. was not a unanimous ruling that “presidential immunity and executive privilege are accountable”; instead the Court issued a divided 6–3 opinion that carved out absolute immunity ...
’s 2014–2015 immigration directives — notably deferred action expansions () — were met by multi-state lawsuits and conservative legal challenges that culminated in a 4–4 split at the in v. , leaving l...
created a temporary, discretionary shield from deportation and work-authorization for eligible young people starting in 2012, changing how many undocumented immigrants could avoid removal without goin...
v. (commonly called the ) ended in a 4–4 split at the on June 23, 2016, resulting in affirmation of the ’s injunction that blocked the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program and an ex...
v. Lyons stands as the principal pre‑Perdomo decision shaping courts’ approach to injunctive relief, especially the Article III standing required for forward‑looking relief, and more recent decisions ...
in recent jurisprudence have treated allegations that mass-targeting actions were politically motivated with a mix of skepticism and pragmatic relief: judges often demand concrete proof of discriminat...
Since the most potent, court-tested defenses in federal denaturalization litigation have been the Supreme Court’s materiality/causation requirement announced in Maslenjak, the “qualification-for-citiz...
Since 2017, enforcement priorities were driven first by the Trump administration’s February 20, 2017 DHS memorandum (implementing Executive Order 13768) that broadly narrowed prosecutorial discretion ...