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❋ 3/4/26 SCOTUS: “Court unanimously sides with government in immigration dispute”

“The Supreme Court unanimously sided with the federal government on Wednesday in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, holding in an opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that federal courts of appeals must use a relatively deferential standard of review when assessing the Board of Immigration Appeals’ determination that asylum seekers did not experience the level of persecution necessary to qualify for asylum protections.”

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❋ 3/4/ 2026: “US Senate vote fails to rein in Trump war powers on Iran”

“A bipartisan resolution aimed at limiting President Donald Trump's ability to wage war in Iran has failed in the US Senate, as the strikes continue.

The war powers measure was rejected in a 53-47 vote largely along party lines. It would have halted US military action in Iran without congressional approval.”

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❋ 3/4/26 “How Latino Voters Helped Talarico Win in Texas”

“James Talarico’s victory in the Democratic Senate primary race in Texas was powered in part by a sizable advantage among Latino voters, a sought-after group that Democrats are hoping to win back.”

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  • "I think it’s a common misconception that answers are easy and that if you can just find the right theory, there’s the promise of certitude. And no legal theory can deliver that. That includes originalism.”

    - Justice Amy Coney Barrett

  • "“[w]ith the stroke of a pen, the President has made a ‘solemn mockery’ of our Constitution: Rather than stand firm the Court gives way. Because such complicity should know no place in our system of law, I dissent.”

    - Justice Sonia Maria Sotomayor

  • “[t]ime will tell if today’s decision portends a broader shift in the Court’s view of Article III standing for all litigants,” if it does not, the court’s “decisions will come to represent, like so many marble facades, another mere facsimile of justice.”

    - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

  • Esteras v. United States: “Veteran trial judges often complain that their appellate colleagues live in a world of airy abstractions and do not give enough thought to the practical effects of their holdings. Today’s decision is likely to earn the rank of Exhibit A in the trial bench’s catalog of appellate otherworldliness.”

    - Justice Samuel Alito

  • Velazquez v. Bondi: “[T]he majority reaches the merits after finding jurisdiction based on a flawed theory of its own creation.”

    - Justice Clarence Thomas

  • Abbott V. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS “Today’s order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge — that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right, and today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”

    - Justice Elena Kagan