The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken time and again in front of a judge in Washington.
Readers react to an award for a law student’s essay claiming that the rights recognized in the Constitution apply only to white people. Also: Climate change.
Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump administration’s plan to move forward.
Teri Kanefield’s “Rebels, Robbers and Radicals” brings the document alive through court cases of real people involved in real struggles.
The Correction Department said Bernardo Caceres’s papers tested positive for THC, a cannabinoid. Then officials tested the papers again.
Readers voice outrage over appalling conditions in immigrant detention centers. Also: Paramount’s settlement; political violence; not pro bono.
The letter had accused the Trump administration of politicizing, dismantling and sidelining the agency.
What does it mean to be an American?
Grading how the Supreme Court has done so far in Trump 2.0.
Lawyers said Sean “Diddy” Combs was thankful to have avoided a possible life sentence. The jury found the hip-hop mogul guilty of lesser charges of transporting prostitutes.
The judge wrote that neither the Constitution nor federal immigration law gave the president the authority to “adopt an alternative immigration system.”
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Republican prosecutors in Wisconsin said they intended to enforce the old law.
In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.
Ms. Habba, the president’s former spokeswoman and personal lawyer, has been serving in an interim capacity. She had no prosecutorial experience when she was appointed.
Readers offer strong, sharply varied responses to Andrew Sullivan’s guest essay.
A Supreme Court decision demonstrates a new degree of cimperiousness, seeming to co-sign the Trump administration’s contempt for the lower courts.
The famous Harlem theater will be refurbished. In the meantime, Amateur Night is on hiatus.
The New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak recaps this Supreme Court term, which was defined by a disproportionate amount of emergency docket cases. Liptak explains why these cases tended to go in the Trump administration’s favor.
The administration appears to have decided to press forward with its fight against top law firms despite numerous defeats.
The lawyers who represent the city’s poorest defendants want to be paid on par with their federal counterparts. They last walked out in 1994.
The lawyers who represent the city’s poorest defendants want to be paid on par with their federal counterparts. They last walked out in 1994.
Readers react to the Supreme Court decision on nationwide injunctions. Also: A resignation at the University of Virginia; remembering Dachau.
The case involves a challenge to federal limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates.
Amir Ali became a federal judge just weeks before Trump took office. It’s been tumultuous ever since.
Judge Frederic Block will oversee the prosecution of Rafael Caro Quintero, a Mexican drug lord, which could bend in the death penalty. In the meantime, there’s stand-up comedy to keep him busy.
Readers explain what Obergefell meant to them.
A reckless nomination puts the Senate to the test.
At a conference with federal judges, the chief justice did not mention the court’s decision sharply limiting their power, focusing instead on the danger of threats to the judiciary.
The justices’ strange about-face has a source.
How the court reaffirmed the proper role of the federal courts within our constitutional system.
The Supreme Court has set a new, higher bar for judges seeking to block Trump administration policies nationwide. But some legal routes remain open.
Ten years after their Supreme Court win, some veterans of the marriage equality battles see a shared struggle for transgender rights.
Using truncated procedures, the six-justice conservative majority gave a green light to many of the president’s most assertive initiatives.
A lawyer by day, he created Highlights in Jazz, bringing together artists both famous and unknown in more than 300 concerts over 50 years.
The practical effect of Friday’s decision is that birthright citizenship would end in the 28 states that have not challenged the president’s order.
The Supreme Court’s conservative bloc reduced the power of district court judges to block government actions nationwide.
The Supreme Court has imposed new limits on the power of district-court judges. Here’s what that means for the Trump administration.
La orden entrará en vigor dentro de 30 días. Los jueces no abordaron la constitucionalidad subyacente de la orden presidencial de restringir la ciudadanía por derecho de nacimiento en EE. UU.
The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are at least 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds.
The ruling clears a major hurdle to President Trump’s agenda and could reshape American citizenship, at least temporarily, as lower court challenges proceed.
The dispute before the court was prompted by an order President Trump signed on his first day back in the White House.
Three columnists break down the murky politics behind the strike.
Tiene una buena relación con el presidente y la primera dama. Es una vida radicalmente distinta a la que tenía como abogada litigante.
La afirmación suscitó dudas sobre la seriedad con la que el gobierno se toma los cargos penales presentados contra el migrante Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of the plan to use phony slates of pro-Trump electors to overturn the 2020 election, was indefinitely barred from practicing in the state last year.
The assertion raised questions about how seriously the administration takes the criminal charges filed against the migrant. A White House official reiterated support for prosecuting him in America.
On the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationally, supporters say they are secure but also wary and watchful.
A decade after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, we asked people from across the country to share stories of what the ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges has meant to them.
So far, the courts have sided with business owners who sued after their money service businesses were caught up in President Trump’s crackdown on cartels.
Adam Liptak describes the moment in which same-sex marriage became legal nationwide on June 26, 2015 — and what the future may hold for the Supreme Court’s ruling.
During a confirmation hearing for an appeals court opening, Emil Bove III was repeatedly questioned about a whistle-blower complaint that portrayed political appointees as willing to mislead judges.
The couples who exchanged vows in May 2004 helped usher in a period of profound change, leading to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right.
Lawyers for the administration said that a rule issued by a judge in Maryland intruded on the White House’s inherent powers to “enforce the nation’s immigration laws.”
Old friends are bewildered by the turn taken by the second lady, a onetime Democrat and former litigator for a San Francisco firm. Others say she’s happy in the role.
After the justices let the administration deport migrants to countries with which they had no connection, a federal judge blocked the removal of eight men.
Bombing Iran without congressional authorization escalated a bipartisan trend of presidents bypassing the original intent of the Constitution.
Hugo Aguilar Ortiz grew up in a remote Mixtec-speaking village. He is now one of the most powerful lawyers in Mexico.
The order to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from criminal custody as he awaits trial was a rebuke to the Trump administration. But he is likely to remain in immigration custody.
Hugo Aguilar Ortiz se ha convertido en una de las figuras indígenas más visibles de México y en un símbolo de la reestructuración del poder judicial impulsada por el partido gobernante en el país.
The firms say their First Amendment rights are being violated when cities and states sue and accuse them of spreading misinformation about climate change.
The Trump administration remains committed to deporting Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and leading figure in the pro-Palestinian protest movement.
The court unanimously ruled that the state cannot require schools and universities to display the Commandments.
In an unusual request, two toy manufacturers had asked the court to greatly expedite their case.
She channeled her experiences — and frustrations — as a Los Angeles prosecutor into an award-winning career as a television writer and producer.
Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and legal permanent resident, has been held in Louisiana for over three months. The judge found reason to believe it was retaliation for his pro-Palestinian speech.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
The era of corporate allyship with the L.G.B.T. community is over. Maybe that’s a good thing.
A panel rejected a lower-court’s finding that it was likely illegal for President Trump to use state troops to protect immigration agents from protests.
The retrenchment on transgender rights is fueled by fear: fear of the future, fear of unfamiliar concepts, fear of not knowing one’s child.
The decision to uphold the Tennessee law will most likely mean a patchwork of laws throughout the country, a map that traces current political polarization.
Judge William G. Young’s long career has been punctuated by high-profile cases and outspoken advocacy for the judiciary’s value and fact-finding power.
Sarah Stogner had never tried a criminal case before getting elected D.A. in an oil-rich area half the size of New Jersey. So far, it’s been a struggle.
A federal judge held the attorney general, James Uthmeier, in civil contempt of court for violating an order blocking part of an immigration enforcement law.
A three-judge panel will determine whether National Guard troops can remain under President Trump’s command in Los Angeles as protests against immigration raids continue.
A lawsuit by the lawyers group seeks to stop the president’s efforts to punish law firms.
The question for the justices is whether the centers may pursue a First Amendment challenge to a state subpoena seeking donor information in federal court.
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks about the Democratic Party. Also: A litmus test for federal workers; principled Republicans.
La baja participación y el temor a un retroceso democrático marcaron la transición de México a la elección de jueces y magistrados, lo que abre el camino para que el partido Morena domine los tribunales.
Low turnout and fears over democratic backsliding marked Mexico’s shift to electing judges, which opens the way for the Morena party to dominate courts.
President Trump appointed her to clinch a conservative legal revolution. But soon after arriving at the Supreme Court, she began surprising her colleagues.
Denying the Justice Department’s request to detain the deportee would be a significant rebuke of the Trump administration, which has repeatedly cast him as a dangerous criminal.
The departures are the latest fallout for firms that cut deals with President Trump to avoid executive orders.
Disability rights groups had followed the case closely, warning that arguments by the school district could threaten broader protections for people with disabilities.
The request came as lawyers in Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s separate civil case were poised to ask a different judge to hold the Trump administration in contempt for sidestepping one of her orders.
There’s a lot of work for lawyers in the nation’s capital these days: Over 400 lawsuits have been filed against President Trump’s administration since the start of his second term.
The filing by the Justice Department came ahead of a hearing scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Federal District Court.
The president’s lawyers argued that a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity justified moving an appeal of his conviction in Manhattan to U.S. jurisdiction.
Lori Zeno, who helped start the Queens Defenders, and her husband were accused of taking money from the organization for luxury vacations and a penthouse apartment.
“Ni siquiera he oído hablar de una protesta” en el acto del sábado en Washington para celebrar al ejército, dijo, pero “se trata de gente que odia a nuestro país”.
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was motivated by conservative Christians’ success in reversing Roe v. Wade.
The emergency request came a day before the Trump administration was supposed to outline how to allow nearly 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador to challenge their expulsion.
“I haven’t even heard about a protest,” at the Saturday event in Washington celebrating the Army, he said, but “this is people that hate our country.”
The Trump administration, reversing a Biden-era policy, had said it would return thousands of confiscated devices that allow rapid firing, even in states where they are banned.
Originalism is not just a unifying philosophy.
A nurse practitioner spoke on the phone with patients in states with abortion bans, assessed their medical eligibility and sent pills. She took some unconventional steps to protect their privacy.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s lawyers accused the Trump administration of spending months “engaged in an elaborate, all-of-government effort to defy court orders.”
America isn’t ready for what could happen to health care.
“I’m glad it happened, even at my expense,” said Rod Ponton, who is (still) not a cat.
The decision could rip a hole in Berlin’s budget and complicate the transition to a greener economy.
The case is the second one this term asking the justices to decide when government activity crosses the line to become coercion forbidden by the First Amendment.
A Fifth Circuit panel partly upheld restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with online platforms about their content.
After making little progress with Republican leaders at the White House on Tuesday, the president previewed two possible endgames to resolve a debt-limit standoff.
Two criminal defendants have asked the Supreme Court to decide whether remote testimony against them violated the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause.
Recent orders suggest that the justices are thinking of dismissing cases involving the “independent state legislature” theory and Title 42, an immigration measure imposed during the pandemic.
The justices, who had been set to hear arguments on March 1, acted after the Biden administration filed a brief saying that the measure would soon be moot.
The unanimous ruling was the first one summarized by a justice since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and an indication that the court is off to a slow start this term.
At issue is Title 42, a public health measure invoked by the Trump administration during the pandemic to block migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
The justices left in place an injunction blocking the Biden administration’s authority to forgive up to $20,000 in debt per borrower.
A pair of prominent headlines highlights the reversals.
We all know what happened with summer 2020. Then 2021 was dampened by Delta. This year, any anticipated return to revelry has been hampered by … *waves hands at everything.* Is there hope for enjoying the once fun season?
School is out for the summer — but in some cases, so are the bosses.
School is out for the summer — but in some cases, so are the bosses.
Readers call for more openness and discuss judicial restraint and the justices’ religious beliefs. Also: Mask decisions; Twitter’s dark side; skipping school.