WASHINGTON, June 7 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Legal Sidebar white paper (No. LSB11321) on June 6, 2025, by legislative attorney Alejandra Aramayo: * * * "Sanctuary" Jurisdictions: Legal Overview Some state and local jurisdictions have adopted policies that limit their cooperation with federal agencies charged with immigration enforcement. Some observers and policymakers describe these states and municipalities as "sanctuary" jurisdictions, though ther more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Ansari Statement on Abrego Garcia Return * WASHINGTON - Today, following reports that Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States after being wrongly deported, Representative Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03) released the following statement: "Kilmar Abrego Garcia should have never been deported without due process. I traveled to El Salvador to ensure the Trump Administration  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Citizenship and Immigration Services issued the following alert on June 6, 2025: * * * Litigation-Related Update: Supreme Court stay of CHNV Preliminary Injunction On May 30, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an order lifting the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts's April 14, 2025 Preliminary Injunction that stayed parts of the March 25, 2025 Federal Register notice titled, "Termination of Paro more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Krishnamoorthi Blasts Supreme Court Ruling Granting DOGE Access to Social Security Data * WASHINGTON - Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court's decision (link is external) to grant the Trump Administration's DOGE team access to Social Security data: "With this ruling, the Supreme Court has once again chosen Donald Trump's  more PR

LONDON, England, June 7 -- DLA Piper, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * DLA Piper secures unanimous decision from the Supreme Court of Canada in constitutional case DLA Piper secured a key judgement from the Supreme Court of Canada in favour of Opsis Airport Services Inc. ("Opsis"). The Court declared Quebec's Private Security Act to be inapplicable to Opsis under the constitutional doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity. In a unanimous ruling, the Court concluded that key provis more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Legal Sidebar white paper (No. LSB11320) on June 6, 2025, by legislative attorney Andrew S. Coghlan: * * * EPA to Revisit Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding On March 12, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would initiate "a formal reconsideration" of its "Endangerment Finding," a 2009 rule under the Clean Air Act (CAA) in which EPA found, for the first time, that the com more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * Larson and Neal Blast Supreme Court Decision Allowing 'DOGE' Access to Personal Data at Social Security * East Hartford, CT - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (MA-01) and Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement after the Supreme Court stepped in (link is external) to allow Elon Musk's 'DOGE' access t more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Legal Sidebar white paper (No. LSB11319) on June 5, 2025, by legislative attorney Hannah-Alise Rogers: * * * Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing Executive Order: Legal Issues On May 12, 2025, the Trump Administration issued an executive order titled "Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients" (the 2025 EO). Both the 2025 EO and the accompanying fact sheet outli more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Blumenthal: Week in Review 5/30/25-6/6/25 * Visiting Ukraine & Fighting for Russian Sanctions [WASHINGTON, D.C.] - U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) visited Ukraine with U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and to visit the site of recent bombings. Blumenthal and Graham have introduced legislation to impose primary and secondary sanc more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 6 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Institute for Justice posted the following news release: * * * Support Pours in for Denver Man's Suit to Revive Fourth Amendment's Warrant Requirements * DENVER --Michael Mendenhall's townhome was searched and his precious possession seized after the police used secondhand information to get a search warrant. He was also forced to spend a night in jail. The testimony of a single witness was passed like a game of "telephone" from a poli more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Legal Sidebar white paper (No. LSB11313) on May 19, 2025, by legislative attorney Joanna R. Lampe: * * * Supreme Court Hears Challenges to Nationwide Injunctions On May 15, 2025, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Trump v. CASA, Inc., Trump v. Washington, and Trump v. New Jersey, a trio of cases involving nationwide injunctions against the federal government. The substantive legal issue in these case more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Legal Sidebar white paper (No. LSB11322) on June 6, 2025, by legislative attorney Jared P. Cole: * * * Transgender Athletes and Title IX: Agency Investigations and Litigation Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs. Long-standing regulations implementing the statute permit separating the sexes in sports programs, as long as schools of more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Van Hollen Statement on Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States * Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement regarding the reported return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States: "For months the Trump Administration flouted the Supreme Court and our Constitution. Today, they appear to have finally relented to our demands for compliance with  more PR