The Trump administration on Monday appealed a district court judge’s dismissal of its Tennessee criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the 30-year-old man living in Maryland who drew national attention to the administration’s immigration enforcement practices after he was wrongly deported to El Salvador last year. U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismissed human smuggling […]
Metro Nashville filed suit Monday against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in federal court, claiming the Trump administration withheld tens of millions of dollars for anti-terrorism efforts unless states and local governments adopted certain election-system policies to check citizenship. Metro joined Harris County and El Paso County, both in Texas, and the city of […]
Three votes now separate Republican Paula Copenhaver from state Sen. Spencer Deery, but a dispute over six rejected ballots could reverse the outcome of their Indiana Senate primary for a second time. Deery’s attorneys on Monday asked the Indiana Supreme Court to take the recount case and the Court of Appeals to suspend the result […]
A panel of federal judges on Thursday denied an injunction aiming to stop Tennessee’s redrawn congressional map — which splits majority-Black, majority-Democratic Memphis into three U.S. House districts — from going into effect before the August primary election. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of voters, clergy and nonprofits in Memphis […]
