Chief Justice John Roberts highlighted four specific threats to judicial independence: violence, intimidation, disinformation and threats to defy judgments.
In a unanimous decision on Dec. 10, the U.S. Supreme Court held that revoking an approved visa petition based on a sham-marriage determination by the Secretary of Homeland Security is the kind of discretionary decision that strips federal courts of jurisdiction to review certain actions.
The appeals court found that in the case of Houser v. CenturyLink, Houser may borrow plausibility by incorporating allegations from confidential witnesses cited in another complaint.
