US Courts
Appeals court blocks Trump’s ‘invasion’ border proclamation, clearing path to resume asylum processing
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A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump’s proclamation describing migration at the U.S.-Mexico border as an “invasion” and using that finding to suspend access to asylum exceeds the authority Congress granted in immigration law. The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit could require the government to restart at-the-border asylum processing, though the administration has indicated it plans to seek further review.
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that a longstanding federal prohibition on distilling spirits at home cannot be justified as an exercise of Congress’s taxing power, siding with the Hobby Distillers Association and four of its members.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reinstated a $655.5 million judgment entered on a 2015 jury verdict against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority in a long-running case brought by American victims of attacks in Israel during the Second Intifada.