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Charles Roth is the Director of Litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center. NIJC filed or joined amicus briefs in seven of the cases discussed below. Most deportation orders are entered in obscurity, without counsel, without even an immigration judge to do the honors.
John C. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service, and former Dean, at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, and a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute. The Supreme Court’s October Term 2016, just concluded, might justifiably be described as fairly lackluster.
Richard Samp is Chief Counsel of the Washington Legal Foundation, which filed a brief in Ziglar v. Abbasi on behalf of five former attorneys general and two former FBI directors, and a brief in Jennings v. Rodriguez on behalf of 31 members of Congress.
David S. Rubenstein is Professor of Law and Director, Robert J. Dole Center for Law & Government, Washburn University School of Law. For anyone still wondering how President Donald Trump’s travel ban is possibly constitutional, “immigration exceptionalism” is the reason.
Nancy Morawetz is Professor of Clinical Law at NYU Law School. Unanimous decisions might seem less noteworthy than holdings that divide the Supreme Court. But unanimous and otherwise lopsided rulings about substantive immigration law are significant for more than the issues they resolve.
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is the Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and founding director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Penn State Law-University Park and the author of “Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases.” On June 26, the Supreme Court ordered