The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in two major cases, one concerning the legality of geofence warrants in police investigations and the other involving the Trump administration's revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Haiti and Syria.
Former federal prosecutor George Newhouse of Richards Carrington discussed the geofence warrant case, which challenges the use of broad location data requests that can sweep up information on innocent individuals. The Court is weighing whether such warrants violate Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
In the second case, immigration law expert Leon Fresco of Holland & Knight analyzed oral arguments over the administration's decision to terminate TPS for Haitian and Syrian nationals. The case tests the limits of executive power to end humanitarian protections that have allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants to live and work in the U.S. legally.
Bloomberg Law's June Grasso hosted the segment, which aired on Bloomberg Podcasts.