Supreme Court Lets New Trump Asylum Restrictions Take Effect
September 11, 2019 6:22 PM ET The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce new restrictions on asylum seekers at the southern border. In practice, the new rules would deny asylum to any migrant who passed through another country without first seeking protected status there. A federal judge in California issued a nationwide…
Battered Women’s Shelter Doesn’t Need To Admit Trans-Woman, Court Rules
August 13, 2019 5:08 PM ET An Anchorage civil rights panel cannot enforce an anti-discrimination ordinance against a battered women’s shelter that refused to admit a trans-woman, a federal court in Alaska ruled. “Downtown Hope Center serves everyone, but women deserve a safe place to stay overnight,” said lawyer Kate Anderson of the Alliance Defending…
