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Justice Sonia Sotomayor lets her inner “wise Latina” roar: “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday condemned racially charged language used by a federal prosecutor in Texas. The justice, appointed to the court by President Barack Obama in 2009, took the relatively unusual step of writing a statement to accompany the nine-member Supreme Court’s Read More
Felicidades are definitely in order as Cristina Rodriguez will become Yale’s first Latina tenured Law professor in its almost two hundred year history on January 28th. Teaching as an associate professor at NYU Law School, where some students affectionately called her “C. Rod”, she returns to her undergrad and law school alma mater to hold Read More
I thought this issue was settled by Hamilton and them: “The Mexican government is urging a U.S. court to block a part of the [Arizona SB1070] law that prohibits the harboring of undocumented immigrants. Lawyers representing México asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing Wednesday to uphold a lower-court ruling that blocked Read More
Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in an affirmative action case, after a white woman named Abigail Fisher was denied admissions to the University of Texas and claimed it was because of her race. There has been much said about how the justices are likely to vote – especially with the possibly of a Read More
by Lee Anthony Nieves Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts surprised everybody last week with his ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, otherwise known as Obamacare. In Roberts’ decision, he threw away the argument that Congress can impose health insurance on all Americans using the commerce clause and the “necessary Read More
The Obama administration is 2-0 this week – well, sorta. In a historic decision, the Supreme Court on Thursday, June 28, ruled in favor of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature piece of healthcare legislation, according to SCOTUSblog. Labeled derisively as “Obamacare” by the president’s opponents, the law requires the uninsured to possess a Read More
This morning, the Supreme Court finally announced its ruling and delivered a split decision on Arizona’s immigration law. The justices upheld the most controversial “show me your papers” provision, while still blocking some other key provisions of SB 1070. This announcement comes the same week the Supreme Court is scheduled to rule on a second Read More
On Monday, June 25, the Supreme Court ruled mostly against Arizona’s SB1070, the controversial immigration law that required the state’s law enforcement officers to seek out and detain undocumented immigrants. In a somewhat surprising twist, the court chose to uphold the most controversial portion of the law, one that requires police officers to stop and Read More
Mark your calendars, fight fans. The battle many Americans have been waiting for has finally arrived – the immigration Fight of the Century. In the red corner, weighing in at a dainty 100-something pounds: Jan Brewer, a.k.a. “the Great White Dope.” And in the blue corner, from parts unknown: Barack Obama, a.k.a. “Chocolate Jesus.” Today, Read More
Some of our legal Supremes have been deciding badly. On April 2, the Supreme Court handed down its decision on the case of Albert Florence, who was strip searched after being detained due to a computer error. In a 5-4 vote, the court upheld that law enforcement agencies have the right to subject anyone who Read More