US Supreme Court
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
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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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.
- Updated
- US politics
‘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
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
- Analysis
- US politics
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
Trump rant about impeaching a ‘radical left lunatic’ judge sparks rare scolding from chief justice
The White House is escalating its war against the US judiciary after judges temporarily blocked the deportation of alleged criminals and halted parts of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting romp through the bureaucracy.
- Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- US politics
Trump lines his pockets and leaves his supporters out in the cold
Donald Trump has made a flurry of executive orders hours after taking office that will cause havoc in the US and around the world.
- Cory Alpert
US Supreme Court takes up TikTok ban: What you need to know
The US government wants TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company. The video-sharing platform, fearing being shut down in the US, has embarked on a legal challenge against the law.
- Ann E. Marimow and Cristiano Lima-Strong
- Updated
- US politics
Trump asks Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case in New York
Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing.
- Farrah Tomazin
- Editorial
- US Votes 2024
Trump’s cabinet is good, mad or indifferent, but above all loyal
President-elect Donald Trump has picked an oddball cabinet, but how long will it hold?
- The Herald's View
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