Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, criticized the Supreme Court’s expedited rulings in a 2021 hearing on a Texas abortion law that effectively overturned Roe v. Wade in the state.
The second Trump administration has filed roughly the same number of applications so far as the Biden administration did over four years. But they have fared quite differently.
Civil rights organizations and several U.S. citizens accused federal agents of engaging in “blatant racial profiling” by carrying out “indiscriminate immigration operations” with no individualized basis for suspicion.
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.
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.
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