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The law changes how state and local agencies handle civil immigration requests. When a direct custody transfer is unavailable and ICE continues pursuing a person, federal officers must make an arrest after release or defer the action.
Read Massachusetts ICE-Cooperation Limits Take Effect Under PROTECT Act →
Rhode Island’s Democratic primary has become a referendum on whether the governor adequately managed one of the state’s most disruptive infrastructure failures.
Read Washington Bridge Fallout Puts Gov. Dan McKee’s Record on Trial →
Sacramento should be investigating suspected fraud, not creating new legal weapons that can be aimed at the people filming it.
Read California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ Is a First Amendment Trap—and the Attorney General’s Wife Wrote It →
Voting against the cap does not necessarily mean supporting expansion—but it preserves Congress’s ability to change the Supreme Court’s size.
Read House Democrats Keep the Court-Packing Option Alive as Nine-Justice Amendment Falls Short →
New York tried to make major fossil-fuel producers pay $75 billion for climate adaptation. An Obama-appointed federal judge ruled Albany’s sweeping scheme conflicts with federal law.
Read Federal Judge Strikes Down Hochul’s $75 Billion Climate Superfund Law →
The 14-day order does not erase Trump’s Supreme Court win. It exposes the administration’s hardest problem: proving the Postal Service can impose national election rules without Congress.
Read Boston Judge Blocks Trump’s Mail-Ballot Rule Again. The Supreme Court Fight Is Far From Finished →
The Supreme Court let President Trump’s mail-ballot safeguards proceed. The ruling is an election-integrity victory, though final constitutional questions remain.
Read Supreme Court Delivers an Election-Integrity Win—But the Mail-Ballot Fight Isn’t Over →