A Kentucky district court held that the Fifth Amendment requires the government to bear the burden of proof in immigration bond hearings under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a), granting a habeas petition filed by a nineteen-year-old Venezuelan man who had been held for m...
A Kentucky federal court held that noncitizens already living in the United States cannot be stripped of bond hearings under the mandatory-detention provisions of INA § 1225(b)(2), a ruling that directly rejects a policy shift ICE adopted in mid-2025.
A Kentucky federal judge has allowed voter-rights groups, naturalized citizens, and a county clerk to join as defendants in the Justice Department's lawsuit demanding Kentucky's complete statewide voter registration database — including names, addresses, da...