The Trump administration’s aggressive push to deport migrants has run up against resistance from the judiciary.
Los jueces devolvieron el caso a un tribunal inferior para que considere si dicha ley puede utilizarse para deportar a inmigrantes acusados de pertenecer a una banda delictiva.
A federal judge’s order had barred dozens of federal agencies from moving ahead with the largest phase of President Trump’s efforts to downsize the government.
The justices sent the case back to a lower court to consider whether the Alien Enemies Act can be used to deport immigrants accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang.
We explain an argument over judicial power at the Supreme Court.
The central question before the justices is whether a district court judge has the power to block a policy across the country.
Justice Department lawyers are scheduled to appear in Federal District Court in Maryland to defend their latest effort to avoid disclosing details about several key aspects of the proceeding.
The debate over nationwide injunctions.
La cuestión ante los jueces de la Corte Suprema era si un único juez de distrito tiene la capacidad de bloquear una política en todo Estados Unidos.
Raising questions about who gets to claim to be an American powered the president’s political rise. A Supreme Court case may allow him reinterpret a right enshrined in the Constitution since the 1800s.
The question before the justices was whether a single district court judge has the power to block a policy across the country.
Lower courts had been divided over whether judges must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to the seconds preceding them.
Rulings in a term’s biggest cases tend not to arrive until early summer, but this case’s compressed timeline may alter its timing.
In a term that was increasingly overshadowed by emergency requests related to President Trump’s swift executive actions, justices heard arguments on transgender rights, the role of religion in public life, gun violence and speech online.
Across the ideological spectrum, justices have been troubled by rulings that touch everyone affected by a challenged law, regulation or executive action.
This case is atypical for the justices for reasons including how quickly it made it to the court and even that oral arguments are happening at all.
President Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship is one of many aggressive policies that judges have blocked with sweeping orders.
A case focused on birthright citizenship could come later, but the bulk of the argument is expected to concern whether a single judge can freeze a policy nationwide.
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It looks like retribution. It’s actually worse.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether federal judges can block Trump administration policy across the country.
El presidente Donald Trump ha popularizado teorías jurídicas antes consideradas impensables para justificar sus políticas de inmigración.
The Trump administration has declared litigation to hold oil companies responsible for climate change a threat to the American economy and has taken aggressive steps to fight it.
Before the Trump presidency, there was broad consensus that the 14th Amendment established birthright citizenship for children born in the United States.
The ruling, applying only to detainees held in western Pennsylvania, is the first to uphold the president’s invocation of the wartime act. But it requires that detainees be given 21 days’ notice.
The solicitor general contended that a group of migrants had barricaded themselves inside a Texas detention center and threatened to take hostages.
Justice David H. Souter, who died last week, said in 2012 that public ignorance of the Constitution could lead to the rise of an autocrat and the death of democracy.
Jurists have long surprised expectations based on party, and it’s reassuring to see that continue today.
Current and former justices of the Supreme Court released a statement in response to the death of Justice David Souter.
Retiring at just 69 after two decades on the Supreme Court, the justice left a legacy of case-by-case judging, intellectual rigor and a complete lack of pretension.
He left conservatives bitterly disappointed with his migration from right to left, leading to the cry of “no more Souters.”
Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for the Times, recalls how the justice openly despised the pomp of Washington and longed to return to his home. -
President Trump has ordered federal agencies to halt their use of “disparate-impact liability,” which has been used to assess whether policies discriminate against different groups.
In pointed remarks, the justice told an audience of hundreds of lawyers that she had joined them as “an act of solidarity.”
In an emergency application, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to revoke protections provided to migrants from troubled countries.
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The chief justice, in rare public remarks, defended judicial independence before a crowd of lawyers and judges.
El caso, que afecta a un venezolano de 20 años, ejemplifica otra forma en que la Casa Blanca ha buscado nuevos métodos agresivos para expulsar a los inmigrantes de Estados Unidos.
The case, involving a 20-year-old Venezuelan, exemplifies yet another way the White House has sought new and aggressive methods to expel immigrants from the United States.
Lower courts had blocked the policy, saying it was not supported by evidence and violated equal protection principles.
The president’s fantasizing about remaining in office deserves more forceful pushback.
Many of the current efforts to expand the powers of the White House build on the excesses of recent Republican and Democratic presidents.
Two cases before the Supreme Court ask why the government is able to avoid liability when it does the wrong thing.
Classical musicians have a lot to teach interpreters of the U.S. Constitution. It’s so much more than the text.
The ‘dual-state theory’ explains how authoritarians bend the law to their will.
A federal judge in Maryland found that scrutiny of the agency’s sensitive information systems by Elon Musk’s team appeared to violate federal privacy laws.
Speaking to a judicial conference, the Supreme Court justice said attacks were designed to intimidate and influence.
A federal judge had blocked the administration’s plan to remove the temporary protected status of more than 300,000 immigrants.
The Football Association, the national governing body, said that it had changed its policy as a result of a ruling last month by the British Supreme Court.
A Supreme Court reporter and an education reporter explain faith’s new role in schools.
No quedó claro si el esfuerzo diplomático era un intento genuino de la Casa Blanca de abordar la difícil situación del migrante Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
It remained unclear whether the diplomatic effort was a genuine bid by the White House to address the plight of the immigrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
The move exposed a quietly orchestrated deal between the president and El Salvador, culminating in a back-and-forth with a U.S. federal judge over the course of one frenetic day.
The Supreme Court’s answer will determine whether a Catholic school in Oklahoma can become the nation’s first religious charter school.
The justice will not participate in oral argument, deliberations or vote. She gave no explanation.
The virtual school, named for the patron saint of the internet, would be funded by Oklahoma taxpayers and incorporate Catholic teachings into its curriculum.
The justices have allowed vouchers for religious schools and required equal treatment in tuition programs. But direct government payments to religious public schools pose a new test.
A series of dismissals by the Trump administration has flooded a little-known group of administrative judges who protect civil servants.
The legal questions were tangled, but some justices seemed incredulous at a government lawyer’s defense of a botched operation involving a battering ram and a flash-bang grenade.
The courts are caught in the middle of a crisis, but it’s not something they can adequately remedy.
En los primeros meses del segundo gobierno de Trump, sus abogados han sido acusados de jugar sucio, de ser deshonestos y de actuar con desacato. Edwin Kneedler representó un modelo diferente, según antiguos colegas.
The case is being watched closely by disability rights groups, which warned that arguments by a school district could threaten broader protections for disabled people.
The departure of Israel’s domestic intelligence chief appeared to end his unusually public clash with the prime minister.
In a remarkable scene, the justices applauded Edwin S. Kneedler, a government lawyer with a reputation for candor, care and integrity.
Intent on firing the Shin Bet chief, Ronen Bar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced him in a sharp affidavit, deepening national political divisions.
In 2012, a state trooper in Fairbanks, Alaska, said that Kenneth J. Jouppi knowingly tried to fly into a dry community with a six-pack on board. Now, he may lose his plane.
Venezuelan migrants were given English-only notices with limited time to file court challenges, according to a newly unsealed declaration.
Una declaración de un funcionario del ICE afirma que un formulario de deportación fue leído y explicado a detenidos venezolanos, quienes tuvieron “no menos de 12 horas” para expresar su intención de impugnación.
The justices will rule on whether parents have a religious right to withdraw their children from class on days when storybooks with gay and transgender themes are discussed.
Amherst was known for its diverse student population. Now it is trying to save that legacy without violating the law.
An updated lawsuit filed in Washington was the latest in a flurry of suits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to send migrants to a prison in El Salvador.
A declaration by an ICE official unsealed by a judge says the form was “read and explained” to Venezuelan detainees, who had “no less than 12 hours” to express an intent to mount a challenge.
Lower courts had blocked the policy, saying it was not supported by evidence and violated equal protection principles.
El presidente afirmó que los países estaban enviando a sus presos a Estados Unidos y que necesitaba obviar las exigencias constitucionales del debido proceso para expulsarlos rápidamente.
The Dispatch, a right-of-center political news and commentary start-up, plans to keep the legal news website available at no cost. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The federal judiciary is being forced to confront a fundamental question: What to do when its orders are defied?
The president claimed that countries were sending their prisoners to the United States and that he needed to bypass the constitutional demands of due process to expel them quickly.
There’s no better opponent than one who repeatedly trips over his shoelaces.
In a lively and sometimes heated argument, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared poised to rule for parents with religious objections to storybooks with gay and transgender characters.
The sharp rebuke by a federal judge in Maryland suggested that she had lost her patience with the Trump administration’s recalcitrance in the case.
Plus, the Oscars OK the use of A.I. (with caveats).
The justices heard arguments in a constitutional challenge to a task force that decides what treatments are covered at no cost.
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An appeals court had struck down a Minnesota law that applied to 18- to 20-year olds, saying it violated a new Second Amendment test focusing on history.
The Trump administration has arrived at the cusp of what a judge suspects is outright defiance of court orders. Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times, explores what could come next.
In a scathing court affidavit, the head of the Shin Bet said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressed him to spy on anti-government protesters.
El juez Samuel Alito Jr. escribió que la orden emitida por el tribunal que impedía al gobierno de Trump deportar a un grupo de venezolanos en virtud de una ley de guerra no era “necesaria ni apropiada”.
Parents in Maryland say they have a religious right to withdraw their children from classes on days that storybooks with gay and transgender themes are discussed.
State efforts to urge the Supreme Court to reconsider same-sex marriage have not advanced, but they have reopened the issue.
“Facilitating his return means something more than doing nothing, and they are doing nothing,” Senator Chris Van Hollen said after his trip to El Salvador.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that the court’s overnight order blocking the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans under a wartime law was not “necessary or appropriate.”
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under a wartime law was premature.
What goes around, comes around. And it is not likely to be good for the White House.
The push to deport a group of Venezuelans raises questions about whether the government is following a Supreme Court order requiring that migrants receive due process.
The solicitor general asked the Supreme Court to ‘dissolve’ their temporary block on the deportations of Venezuelans and to allow lower courts to consider the case.
Legal challenges over the powerful wartime law have gone all the way to the Supreme Court.
In an overnight ruling blocking the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans, the justices ignored some of their protocols.
The president is trying to rewrite the narrative of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation as a dispute about illegal immigration rather than the rule of law.
More than 50 Venezuelans were believed to be scheduled to be flown out of the country, presumably to El Salvador, from an immigration detention center in Anson, Texas.
The justice talks about everything from his indictment of the regulatory state to the rights of Native Americans.
Plus, a gun rights case at the Supreme Court and WeWork’s bankruptcy filing.
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.
The legislation would prevent President Biden from issuing another last-minute extension on the payments beyond the end of the summer.
A justice who frequently struggles to see injustice and cruelty in the present will surely struggle to see injustice and cruelty in the past.
The justices acted after the Biden administration announced that the health emergency used to justify the measure, Title 42, was ending.
President Biden has acknowledged that he has not accomplished all he wished to. But that, he maintains, is an argument for his re-election.
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 administration faced a conservative court that has insisted that government initiatives with major political and economic consequences be clearly authorized by Congress.
The justices are set to hear arguments on March 1 on whether Republican-led states may seek to keep in place the immigration measure, which was justified by the coronavirus pandemic.
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.
In a brief filed with the justices, the president’s lawyers argued that his administration had acted within its authority in moving to forgive hundreds of billions in student debt.
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Plans to lift Title 42 have prompted dire predictions of chaos on the border. But there is already a migrant surge, because the pandemic policy was never an effective border-control tool.
For some lawmakers and politicians on both sides of the aisle, brandishing Title 42 is a way to flaunt an aggressive stance on the border.
The temporary stay in lifting the pandemic rule known as Title 42 is a provisional victory for 19 states, led mostly by Republicans, that had sought to keep it in place on the border.
¿Se está acabando el mundo tal como lo conocíamos? ¿Lo sabrías, siquiera, antes de que fuera demasiado tarde?
In 2022, we debated the apocalypse.
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.
The social network’s new owner wants to cut costs and make money from more aspects of tweeting. But some advertisers and celebrities remain cautious.
The courthouse has been closed to most visitors since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and in the meantime the court has been transformed.
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