The Trump administration on Sunday evening doubled down on its assertion that a federal judge cannot force it to bring back to the United States […]
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Rubio Says 10 More People Have Been Expelled to El Salvador
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that the United States had sent 10 members of two gangs — MS-13, which originated in the […]
Lawyers for Venezuelans Challenge Alien Enemies Act Deportations in Texas
Broadening their efforts to stop the Trump administration from using a rarely invoked wartime statute to carry out deportations, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties […]
Supreme Court Lets Trump Suspend Grants to Teachers
The Supreme Court on Friday let the Trump administration temporarily suspend $65 million in teacher-training grants that the government contends would promote diversity, equity and […]
Defiance and Threats in Deportation Case Renew Fear of Constitutional Crisis
Over the weekend, the Trump administration ignored a federal judge’s order not to deport a group of Venezuelan men, violating an instruction that could not […]
Courts Defer to Executive Branch Factual Claims. Trump Complicates That.
The government typically has an advantage when defending its policies against legal challenges. Courts generally defer to the executive branch’s factual declarations and formal representations […]
Judge Orders U.S.A.I.D. and State Dept. to Pay Funds ‘Unlawfully’ Withheld
A federal judge barred the Trump administration on Monday from “unlawfully impounding congressionally appropriated foreign aid funds” that the State Department and the U.S. Agency […]
Opinion | A Supreme Court Case Threatens the Church-State Divide
While the country holds its breath for the Supreme Court’s responses to the Trump administration’s serial depredations, it’s hard to focus on anything else. Nonetheless, […]
Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Bid to Freeze Foreign Aid
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected President Trump’s emergency request to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid as part of his efforts to slash […]
Justices can find these speeches to Congress to be a trial.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. makes a point of going to the State of the Union address. But he does not enjoy it, once […]