U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho announced Saturday that he and Judge Elizabeth Branch will not hire clerks from Stanford Law School after last month’s attempt to silence Judge Kyle Duncan.
President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate is illegal under federal law, the Fifth Circuit federal appeals court held Thursday in a major defeat for the Biden administration.
On Thursday a three judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision striking the requirement that subjects of domestic violence restraining orders give up their guns.
President Joe Biden suffered another court setback on his student debt transfer program which multiple federal courts have blocked as illegal, as the Fifth Circuit federal appeals court denied the Justice Department’s motion seeking to stay a lower court judgment
Fourteen federal judges say they will not hire law clerks who are graduates of Yale Law School due to the hysterical woke behavior that more than 400 students exhibited earlier this year in shutting down a free speech event featuring Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
Trump-appointee Judge James Ho accused United Airlines of “coerc[ing] its employees into violating their religious beliefs.”
A riff between two judges in the United States’ most conservative federal appeals court reflects the ongoing debate of accountability when a government potentially breaches the First Amendment.
James C. Ho, a Taiwan-born judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, penned a powerful concurring opinion condemning the perverse critical race and disparate impact theories, saying of their advocates that “requiring discrimination may not be a problem — it may be the whole point.”
President Donald Trump’s impact on the federal judiciary was recently on display when three judges he appointed to one federal appeals court quoted a fourth Trump judge on another court, rejecting arguments that courts should defer to federal authorities on how to interpret immigration laws.
The Supreme Court on Monday took a case that could overrule Auer deference, a doctrine under which courts defer to federal agencies regarding the scope of their regulatory power, a case with major implications for the powers of the federal government.
Two Trump-appointed minority judges in their forties—Amul Thapar and James Ho—are joining Trump Supreme Court justices in questioning two major legal doctrines that give vast powers to federal agencies, possibly heralding that President Donald Trump could build a judicial majority that scales back the administrative state.
“For every person you ‘help’ due to race, you necessarily hurt another person due to race,” Trump-appointed Judge James Ho (pictured) recently explained in a Louisiana case, as the president’s Justice Department also fights Harvard’s discrimination in Massachusetts against Asian Americans.
Even President Donald Trump’s critics cannot deny his historic success in 2017 in appointed judges to the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, exercising one of the greatest powers of the presidency in a way that will create a lasting legacy shaping the destiny of the nation.
President Donald Trump broke the all-time record on first-year judicial appointments to the federal appeals courts on Thursday, as the Senate confirmed James Ho to the U.S. Court of Appeals to the Fifth Circuit.
WASHINGTON, DC – Senators on Wednesday confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick of Justice Don Willett to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, tying the all-time record for federal appeals judges.
The Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) voted on Thursday to send ten additional judicial nominees to the Senate floor, positioning President Donald Trump for a blockbuster first year on successful judicial appointments, if not a modern record.
President Donald Trump nominated his eighth wave of judicial nominees on Thursday, including four nominees to the federal appeals court covering much of the South.
