The Facts In June of 2025, the Trump administration debuted its Operation At Large nationwide initiative in Los Angeles, California. Operation At Large, led by ICE, aims to fulfill President Trump’s goal of “crackdown” on immigration by deploying “patrols of armed and masked immigration agents” to various locations, such as Home Depots, churches, parks, and bus stops. Born out of this initiative …
On September 8, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled on the government’s application for a stay of a district court’s temporary restraining order in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo. This came after both the district court and the Ninth Circuit denied the application for a stay. The district court’s July 11, 2025, TRO restricted the government from, among other things, stopping suspected undocumented immigrants in the Central District of California based solely on any combination of …
Anyone who watches legal dramas like CSI or Law & Order has heard of a party asserting their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid making certain statements on the witness stand. This assertion comes from a specific clause of the Fifth Amendment, which states that “[n]o person… shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against …
The Change After Donald Trump’s re-election in 2024, his administration worked to make good on their promise to head the largest deportation operation in American history. Mere hours after Trump’s inauguration, Trump officials revoked a policy which limited the areas in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection could apprehend migrants. This policy created …
In courts throughout the nation, Fourth Amendment search and seizure cases are a battlefield with vast potential consequences for Americans across all walks of life. One subject area with a particularly wide potential range of impact is the curtilage doctrine as applied to individual units within multi-unit apartment buildings. The opaque Supreme Court precedent on the issue hangs over the heads of the 61.5% of American renters that lived in buildings with two or more units as of 2021. On August 5, 2025, the Fourth Circuit ruled in United States v. Johnson, holding that …
Imagine you have been sober for three years, have a steady job, and a new apartment. You just gave birth to a healthy baby girl and are excited to bring her home. You are still in the hospital when a case worker from the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) comes to your hospital room, asking you questions about your son. Three years …
Not many people think of snow when they think of North Carolina. A main draw to living in the state are the mild winters. While residents are able to feel each season during the year, North Carolina provides an alternative for those trying to escape the harsh cold of the Northeast. Climate change experts suggest …
In the wake of Trump’s re-election, the landscape of immigration has changed – particularly, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have become increasingly more aggressive in finding and detaining immigrants, including individuals who are legally in the United States. However, the legal landscape for immigrants is not only becoming more perilous on a federal level, but also …
Prisoners, set apart and largely isolated from the rest of society, are heavily reliant on the prison system to supply their day-to-day needs. However, in many instances, prisoners are not just given these necessities. Rather, they are expected to purchase them themselves through the prison commissary. Depending on the state, inmates may earn money to spend at commissaries …
In the disputed North Carolina judicial race that garnered national attention, one group of individuals are seemingly forgotten in the procedural and political coverage: the voters. These voters are not claimed to have voted fraudulently or improperly, instead, the laws they complied with are being challenged as invalid under state statutes. Ultimately, this begs the …
