Topic: Jay Bybee

A federal appeals court said Thursday that former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 2017 criminal contempt verdict, tied to defying a judge's ruling to halt racial and ethnic profiling, will stand.

The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court on Monday asking the justices to lift a hold preventing it from strengthening requirements for granting residency to immigrants.

Judges in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have lifted several injunctions that blocked a rule change by the Trump administration that's designed to limit government benefits to immigrants.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Department of Justice giving preference in awarding policing grants to non-sanctuary cities.

The Supreme Court on Friday denied the Trump administration's request that it be allowed to enforce an asylum ban on migrants who enter the country illegally.

A federal appeals court denied President Trump's request to strike down a judge's order to block an asylum ban on migrants who enter the country illegally.

The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted a stay on an Arizona execution, allowing the state to put Joseph Wood to death by lethal injection Wednesday.

A U.S. appeals court refused to toss a wiretapping lawsuit against Google Inc. for collecting people's personal data while taking pictures for Street View.

A former George W. Bush administration official who approved CIA torture methods for terrorism suspects said he never authorized some tactics prisoners endured.

Bush administration lawyers whose secret memos approved waterboarding of terrorism suspects will not face sanctions, U.S. officials said.