As chief of the Second Circuit in New York, he championed immigrants’ rights, judicial transparency and schooling the public on the law. In 2019 he dealt Trump a blow.
Supreme Court Rules on Tribal Police and Immigrantsâ Testimony
In unanimous decisions, the justices refused to suppress evidence found by a tribal officer and rejected a presumption in favor of immigrantsâ credibility.
The Supreme Court in Washington. One case arose from an encounter in 2016 on a federal highway in the Crow Reservation in Montana.Credit.Erin Scott for The New York Times
June 1, 2021Updated 3:42 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON â In a pair of unanimous decisions, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that tribal police officers may sometimes detain and search non-Native Americans on federal highways and that there is no presumption that testimony from immigrants fighting deportation is credible.