Jacob is a reporter at Democracy Docket and covers anti-Trump accountability litigation. He is from South Dakota and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, English and political science from Augustana University. Before joining Democracy Docket, he covered breaking news at Axios.
The Department of Justice said it will appeal a judge’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting Perkins Coie, a law firm that has represented his political opponents, as well as plaintiffs in voting rights cases.
The Supreme Court limited the ability of federal judges to block executive actions throughout the country through nationwide injunctions.
Amid allegations of inhumane and unsanitary conditions in ICE facilities, the Department of Homeland Security is taking further steps to continue skirting congressional oversight.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. earlier this year, is set to remain in jail for a few more days as his attorneys and federal prosecutors determine whether he’ll be deported if released.
The Department of Justice Tuesday sued every federal district judge in Maryland to challenge a standing court order that temporarily bars the government from deporting people after they have filed a challenge.
Emil Bove, a senior Department of Justice official, suggested the department should tell courts “f*** you” and ignore their orders to carry out President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportations, according to a whistleblower complaint by a former DOJ attorney.
The Supreme Court Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from with minimal notice.
A federal judge ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. earlier this year and imprisoned in El Salvador, should not be detained pending trial on immigrant smuggling charges.
A federal appeals court allowed President Donald Trump to keep using the California National Guard to respond to immigration protests in Los Angeles over the state’s objections.
Federal agents arrested New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander outside an immigration court after he attempted to accompany a person out of a courtroom Tuesday.
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