On Thursday, the Supreme Court dealt a body blow to America’s bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act. The court issued a unanimous decision that will buttress the Donald Trump administration’s efforts to gut the law and fast track fossil fuel projects. Environmental advocates contend that the result of …
Read More »Trump Admin Misleads the Supreme Court About Its South Sudan Deportations
Donald Trump’s administration has appealed to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to bless his effort to deport a group of migrants to South Sudan, a war-torn African country, with little notice and in express violation of a judge’s order. The high court has already smacked down the administration’s efforts …
Read More »Trump Brags to West Point Grads He Can Do Whatever He Wants Now
Wearing a red MAGA hat, President Donald Trump said that his election victory means he can do whatever he wants in his commencement speech at West Point on Saturday. “We had the greatest election victory,” Trump told cadets of the elite United States Military Academy. “This was November 5. We …
Read More »Trump Judge Slams Supreme Court, Says Courts Are 'Not a Denny's'
Last week, the Supreme Court blocked Donald Trump from continuing to use an archaic wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process, after the administration sent hundreds of people to prison in El Salvador this way. In a 7-2 decision, the justices vacated a decision by the Fifth Circuit …
Read More »Trump Suggests Supreme Court Is 'Illegally' Blocking His Lawless Deportations
Donald Trump is still seething at the Supreme Court after it issued a ruling Friday continuing to block his efforts to deport immigrants without due process by citing an archaic wartime law. On Saturday, Trump shared a post on Truth Social from lawyer Mike Davis, one of his most extreme …
Read More »Supreme Court Entertains Trump's Efforts To Neuter Federal Courts
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday regarding the Trump administration’s attack on birthright citizenship — the constitutional right to citizenship of any child born on U.S. soil. The ruling could reshape the judicial system if things swing in Trump’s favor. The judges aren’t being asked to rule directly on …
Read More »What's at Stake as Trump's Assault on Birthright Citizenship Heads to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship on Thursday. Trump signed the order, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” on the first day of his second term, but it has since been halted by nationwide injunctions issued by …
Read More »Trump Says 'I Don't Know' When Asked if He Has to 'Uphold the Constitution'
President Donald Trump, when asked if he has an obligation to uphold the Constitution as president, said, “I don’t know.” Trump made the disturbing comment during an interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press while discussing his campaign promise to deport millions of immigrants. Trump, who himself is …
Read More »Trump Attacks the Supreme Court, Says America 'Cannot Give Everyone a Trial'
Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court on Monday after the justices temporarily blocked him from deporting Venezuelan immigrants, while asserting that America “cannot give everyone a trial” — a bedrock constitutional right. The high court over the weekend took up an emergency petition from the American Civil Liberties Union of …
Read More »ACLU Demands SCOTUS Block Next Round of Deportations to El Salvador
Donald Trump‘s administration is preparing to deport a new group of Venezuelan men detained in Texas, said the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in an emergency Friday court filing. ACLU lawyers urged the Supreme Court to block the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to justify sending migrants to …
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