D. John Sauer

American lawyer

34 stories

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Considerations of ‘institutional security’ are ‘peculiarly within the province and professional expertise of corrections officials, and, in the absence of substantial evidence in the record to indicate that the officials have exaggerated their response to these considerations, courts should ordinarily defer to their expert judgment in such matters,
Any demand for additional evidence of security concerns cannot be reconciled with the ‘wide-ranging deference’ to which [the Bureau of Prisons’] expert judgment is entitled,
BOP’s decision to prioritize mental-health treatment, while discontinuing medically disputed and unproven sex-rejecting interventions, falls well within the bounds of reasoned decision-making,
The order below would again obstruct DHS from efficiently removing aliens... by inordinately delaying third-country removal for any alien who voices a fear of persecution or torture in that country, no matter how frivolous or belated the claim,
While certain aliens may benefit from stalling their removal, the nation does not,
The rule thus plainly does not seize control of states’ administration of elections — it simply imposes reasonable preparation requirements for certain election-related mail,

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With Trump Looking On, Justices Tread Cautiously on Birthright Citizenship

The Wall Street Journalwsj.com/us/news…

Trump, who had suggested he wanted to attend a session last year when the court weighed his sweeping tariffs but ultimately abstained, appeared in his signature dark suit and red tie a few minutes before arguments began over his contentious executive order that would limit birthright citizenship

NBC Newsnbcnews.com/politics/supreme…

Birthright Citizenship Case Pushes Trump’s Relationship With Supreme Court to Brink

The Wall Street Journalwsj.com/us/news…

Justice Brett Kavanaugh sounded like a fired-up prosecutor last year as he shot off a withering series of nuts-and-bolts questions about how President Donald Trump would carry out his plan to rewrite of the way birthright citizenship has been understood in the United States for more than a century

CNNcnn.com/2026/03…

Fed Chair Powell to attend Supreme Court argument on Cook case

The Manila Timesmanilatimes.net/2026/01…

The scope of that unusual exception will be put to the test Wednesday when the court hears oral arguments in the case of Lisa Cook, a Fed governor Trump attempted to fire over the summer following allegations that she had committed mortgage fraud by reporting two different homes as her primary residence

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