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When the White House unveiled President Trump's new immigration plan earlier this week, Sarah Sanders said the issue of DACA was left unaddressed because it's just too controversial. Better to leave that one to the Supreme Court and see where the chips fall. Not two days later, a federal appeals court in Virginia has ruled against the Trump administration, upholding an earlier determination that Trump's attempt to rescind DACA protections was unlawful because "it was not adequately...

A federal appeals court has ruled President Donald Trump's decision to end DACA was unlawful, upholding a different appeals court's ruling. DACA is an Obama-era program designed to protect from deportation undocumented immigrants brought into the country when they were young, by their parents. Friday morning the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Trump's decision to end DACA was "arbitrary and capricious," and unlawful because "it was not adequately explained," as The Hill reports. Bloomberg...

On Monday, a federal judge ruled that the House has every legal right within its constitutional powers to review 10 years of Donald Trump's financial records. U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta also declined to stay that decision pending Trump's appeal because he doesn't think they have a case that could prevail on appeal. That appeal is coming, says Jay Sekulow, one of the president’s personal attorneys. He told Politico "We will be filing a timely notice of appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court...

For several generations, we have been told by the political elites that the Supreme Court stands above the other two branches of government, even when the high court violates the Constitution or claims to decide a broad public policy question squarely within the purview or powers of the other branches. Now, it appears that any lower court can simply issue a ruling more progressive than what the Supreme Court just said, and the other branches feel compelled to abide by that ruling! Remember when...

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Overturning a decision made by a lower court, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia has found that Donald Trump’s abrupt ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy was “arbitrary and capricious." This places the 4th circuit in agreement with the 9th Circuit in California. As Bloomberg Law reports, the 2-1 split decision in 4th District came in large part on the basis that Trump’s actions in ending DACA were not “adequately explained.”  Donald Trump has recently railed...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Appeals court allows Trump administration to force asylum seekers to wait out court process in Mexico.