Amid surge in immigration arrests, RI federal judge OKs out-of-state lawyers to represent detainees

Rhode Island’s federal court is now allowing out-of-state attorneys to represent immigration detainees pro bono without joining the court’s bar for the next year in response to a surge in habeas corpus petitions against the Trump administration. The general order issued Monday by Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. follows a March 30 petition by […]

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