Ninth U.S. Circuit Judge Daniel A. Bress penned a sharp dissent, joined in by 11 other judges, from an order denying a request for rehearing en banc in an immigration case dealing with whether noncitizens who were turned away at the U.S. border, under a now-defunct “metering rule,” qualify as having “arrive[d] in” the U.S. for purposes of a law requiring them to do so before applying for asylum.

The U.S. Supreme Court spent more than two hours Thursday hearing arguments on President Donald Trump’s attempt to deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants without ever discussing whether the U.S. Constitution grants birthright citizenship, as the court decided in 1898.

(Subscription required) More than half of the pre-law students surveyed this February said the current political climate impacted their decision to apply to law school.

(Subscription required) Andrew Scott Noseworthy was told on May 5 that he had failed the February bar exam. Nine days later, he got a call that changed everything.