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By 08/04/2021
A federal judge denied an injunction against the National Park Service filed by animal rights groups who are suing over the management of tule elk in the Point Reyes National Seashore. After a hearing last week, Judge Haywood Gilliam of the Northern District of California ruled that the Harvard Animal Law and Policy Clinic did not adequately show that the park is neglecting its duty to prevent the fenced Tomales Point herd from dying of thirst or malnutrition.
“It is fully within your authority to ensure that the elk survive long enough for us to address this case and for the pendency of the litigation,” the clinic’s attorney Kate Barnekow told Judge Gilliam last Friday. “We need this temporary relief to keep the elk alive.”
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Supreme Court delays oral arguments on border wall and asylum rule
The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to postpone oral arguments in significant cases regarding former President Donald Trump’s border wall and a controversial asylum policy.
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to delay the arguments. The Justice Department said Biden has directed a “pause in construction” so that the administration can undertake an assessment “of the legality of the funding and contracting methods used to construct the wall.” The American Civil Liberties Union, Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition asked the Supreme Court last year to block the construction the wall.
Joe Biden‘
s Supreme Court strategy on a hot-button immigration issue while insisting that the current administration cannot allow any aspect of former President
Donald Trump’s immigration legacy to stand. And they mean it quite literally.
“The Biden administration requested a delay in our border wall Supreme Court arguments,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said via Twitter late Monday. “It’s a good start that Biden isn’t rushing to defend Trump’s illegal wall in court, but just hitting the brakes isn’t enough. We must tear down the wall.”
The Biden administration requested that the pending dispute be taken off the high court’s oral argument schedule in a formal motion to hold the case in abeyance. Hearings in the highly contentious matter were previously scheduled for Feb. 22.