Blog Posts in 2018

"[I]t is the will of Congress – not the whims of the Executive – that determine the standard for expedited removal." Grace et al. v. Whitaker , No. ...

This past week the Ninth Circuit held (once again) that crimes involving moral turpitude (CIMTs) are not unconstitutionally vague and that a finding ...

While the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) may have found that Pereira is a very limited decision that has nothing to do with anything, the district ...

The unspoken theme of the last few weeks within immigration law has been the issue of the separation of powers – but not the usual issue of the ...

"[J]ust as a block of wood is not a pencil if it lacks some kind of pigmented core to write with, a piece of paper is not a notice to appear absent ...

The genius of American society (at least one aspect of the genius of American society) is how we have integrated refugees into our country. (Other ...

This week we have a guest blog by Sean Patrick McGinley a law student at Boston College. Sean Patrick explains the scientific reasoning behind the ...

I am writing this blog from San Jose, California, hundreds of miles from the wildfires, I have been sitting inside for the past week, finding it ...

Part I: 288c and PSC After being very quiet for a few weeks and issuing no opinions on certain days, the Ninth Circuit made up for it this past week ...