Aggressive enforcement operations in Los Angeles — including encounters captured on video that appeared to be roundups of random Hispanic people by armed agents — have set off protests and clashes in the area.
The justice’s comments reflected tensions within the judiciary, as trial judges struggle to interpret the Supreme Court’s often cryptic emergency orders.
“My office doesn’t entitle me to align the legal system with my moral or policy views,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett writes in her new book, “Listening to the Law.”
U.S.-funded food aid arriving in South Sudan in 2023. Last week, the White House told Congress that it intended to cancel $4.9 billion that lawmakers had appropriated for foreign aid programs.
Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court has repeatedly paused.
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh called trial-court judges “the front lines of American justice” while addressing the annual Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference in Memphis on Thursday.
An appeals panel paused a federal judge’s ruling that no additional detainees could be sent to the center, and that much of it had to be dismantled within 60 days.
A judge ruled that the Trump administration broke the law in canceling billions in federal funds for Harvard. Whether the money is returned matters for the rest of higher education.
A court ruling this week was a victory for Harvard in its fight with the Trump administration, but the battle between the two sides is most likely not over.
After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.
The unique culture of the judiciary, which can tilt toward tradition over innovation, has led it to move more slowly than a private company or other branches of government might.
A relative of an unaccompanied minor deported from the United States reviewing a list of those deported outside La Aurora International Airport, in Guatemala City on Sunday.
A relative of an unaccompanied minor deported from the United States reviewing a list of those deported outside La Aurora International Airport, in Guatemala City on Sunday.
The request came after President Trump and several of his top aides had attacked Mr. Abrego Garcia as a threat, even though federal judges have ruled that he is not a danger to the public.
A federal judge found that Trump officials cannot remove Mike Abramowitz, the director of Voice of America, “without the approval of” the International Broadcasting Advisory Board.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington has struggled to convince judges and grand jurors of the viability of several cases arising from President Trump’s deployment of troops and federal agents to fight crime.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift an order from a federal judge that requires the administration to spend funds Congress already budgeted for foreign aid.
The judge used the ruling to take President Trump and some of his top aides to task for having repeatedly attacked other judges who have dared to rule against the White House.
A judge in Maryland barred the Trump administration from immediately deporting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia until he had a chance to challenge the move.
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