Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) returned to the United States on Friday after meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom Donald Trump’s administration illegally shipped to a prison in El Salvador and refuses to bring home, in open defiance of a Supreme Court order. “It’s good to be …
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Pam Bondi, the attorney general of the United States, was asked what should have been a pretty simple question during a Fox News appearance on Monday night. “Is that legal?” Jesse Watters wondered, referring to Donald Trump musing earlier in the day about sending “homegrown” American citizens to El Salvador. …
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) acknowledged during a leadership summit in Anchorage this week that “we are all afraid” three months into President Donald Trump’s second term in office. Murkowski has been a fairly outspoken critic of Trump in a Republican Party that publicly worships him. An audience member asked Murkowski …
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Shortly before midnight on April 15, United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, Tanya S. Chutkan dealt Donald Trump’s administration another in a series of lower court losses. The court issued a preliminary injunction that blocked Trump’s effort to claw back $20 billion in federal funding for …
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SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space technology company, is a top contender to build key parts of President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” project, Reuters reported Thursday. Trump first announced the creation of a Golden Dome, a satellite-based version of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense shield, in a January executive order. SpaceX would …
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An appeals court smacked down Donald Trump’s latest effort to avoid complying with directives from the Supreme Court and a district court, which both ordered the administration to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man it illegally sent to a notorious torture prison in El Salvador. A three-judge panel on …
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President Donald Trump skirted questions about the Supreme Court’s order to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from a mega-prison in El Salvador, and about his administration’s defiance of a federal judge’s order to not deport hundreds of people to the Salvadoran prison without due process. “I’m not involved in it,” …
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Vice President J.D. Vance has publicly come out in favor of disregarding due process rights in the United States. In a lengthy X post published on Tuesday, Vance wrote: “To say the administration must observe ‘due process’ is to beg the question: what process is due is a function of …
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A federal judge has ruled that there is “probable cause” to hold the Trump administration in contempt over its removal of hundreds of migrants from the United States to a notorious prison in El Salvador despite an order to halt their deportation. On Wednesday, D.C. U.S. District Court Judge James …
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Wilmer Gutiérrez last saw his son the morning of Feb. 24. Later that day, his nephew called to tell him that 19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez had been arrested just steps from their shared apartment in the Bronx. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our …
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