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President Donald Trump would rightly claim this as the best week of his presidency thus far.

The best week of Donald Trump’s second presidency just got even better

A combination of daring, good fortune and the brute wielding of American power combined to deliver a momentous week in global affairs and a number of stunning wins for the president himself.

  • Michael Koziol

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President Donald Trump celebrated the “giant win” and said his administration would now move forward with a raft of controversial policies.

Trump handed ‘giant win’ as Supreme Court curbs judges’ power to block his orders

The US president said a handful of “radical left judges” could no longer overrule his rightful powers. Dissenting judges decried “a grave an attack on our system of law”.

  • Michael Koziol

Merle saw her first out-of-state abortion patient in NYC in 1971. Now it’s ‘Groundhog Day’

In the last four years, the number of American women forced to travel across the country for an abortion has soared. For many, a New York clinic is a haven.

  • Liz Gooch
President Donald Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs have been ruled unlawful by two separate courts.

Trump rages at ‘hustler’ judges with his tariff agenda at mercy of the courts

In a chaotic legal scramble, an appeals court allowed Trump’s reciprocal tariffs to remain, temporarily, while the administration appeals the block, as a second US court found the tariffs unlawful.

  • Michael Koziol
President Donald Trump holds his hat in the wind as he disembarked Air Force One last week.

Trump was asked if he has to uphold the Constitution. His response: ‘I don’t know’

The US president also said in a wide-ranging interview that he did not think military force would be needed to make Canada the “51st state” and played down talk of a third term.

  • Aamer Madhani
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, speaks to the media during a press conference.

Disappearances to contactless hellholes is how dictatorships work

Innocent people are being sent to an El Salvador jail – and this is just the beginning. Anyone could be tapped on the shoulder and their rights will vanish.

  • Ezra Klein
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Trump thinks this battleground will play to his strengths. Australians will recognise the territory

US Supreme Court blocks deportation of Venezuelan migrants, for now

The court issued the order after the men’s lawyers asked it to intervene on an emergency basis, saying they faced imminent deportation without the judicial review the justices previously ordered.

US President Donald Trump meets El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday (Tuesday AEST).

‘Uncharted waters’: US edges closer to constitutional crisis over deportee

Veteran Democrat Nancy Pelosi is among those accusing the Trump administration of defying the courts by refusing to return a man from a notorious Salvadorean jail.

  • Michael Koziol
Donald Trump in March ordered the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members in US to a prison in El Salvador.

Court clears way for Trump to use 18th century law for deportations

But in a bitterly divided decision that overturned a lower court’s block on sending migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador, the Supreme Court imposed some limits.

  • Mark Sherman
Alleged Venezuelan gang members deported from the US arrive at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Centre on March 16.

The president, the judge and the flights that landed in the middle of the night

Donald Trump is embroiled in a legal showdown over his deportation of more than 200 alleged gang members. He’s relying on two words to get the scheme over the line, but legal scholars wonder if the government has crossed a red line by defying a court order.

  • Michael Koziol

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