In December, the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program resumed under President Joe Biden s administration. The immigration policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, requires the U.S. government to return certain asylum-seekers to Mexico pending the adjudication of their immigration cases in American courts.
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Judges appointed by former President Trump have stymied President Biden s policies on multiple fronts in the early months of the new administration, taking what experts say is a less deferential approach to executive power as judges appointed by past presidents. What you’re seeing is that ‘pen and phone’ initiatives are running into legal trouble right off the bat, Ilya Shapiro, the vice president and director of the libertarian Cato Institute s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, told Fox News. Trump appointed a lot of judges more than anyone in one term than Jimmy Carter, for whom Congress created 152 new judgeships to fill and these folks aren’t as deferential to executive power as past Republican-appointed judges might have been.
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A federal judge has struck down the national moratorium on evictions implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the coronavirus pandemic. The ruling will put millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes months ahead of the projected moratorium end date in September.
Exterior of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) headquarters is seen on October 13, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. Frieden urged hospitals to watch for patients with Ebola symptoms who have traveled from the tree Ebola stricken African countries. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)
The ruling is being called a victory for property owners.