Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event
Last week’s federal court decision forbidding the Trump administration from punishing the AP for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico was to take effect Monday.
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El Salvador president says he won’t return a wrongly deported man back to the US
Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said he doesn’t “have the power” to return the man to the United States.
US still won’t say whether it will return mistakenly deported man, despite Supreme Court decision
A U.S. district court judge now is weighing whether to grant a request from the man’s legal team to compel the government to explain why it should not be held in contempt.
Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave, AP sources say
Officials said stripping the immigrants of their Social Security numbers will cut them off from many financial services and encourage them to “self-deport.”
Supreme Court says Trump administration must work to bring back mistakenly deported Maryland man
The court acted in the case of a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local gangs.
Supreme Court allows Trump’s firings of independent agency board members to take effect, for now
Chief Justice John Roberts signed an order pausing a ruling from the federal appeals court in Washington that had temporarily restored the two women to their jobs.
Appeals court clears the way for the Trump administration to fire thousands of probationary workers
A split panel for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the terminations of federal workers should probably be appealed through a separate employment process rather than fought out in federal court.
Trump administration appeals court decision ordering AP journalists back into White House events
President Donald Trump has dismissed the AP, which was established in 1846, as a group of “radical left lunatics” and said that “we’re going to keep them out until such time as they agree it’s the Gulf of America.”
Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act, after judges’ review
The court’s action appears to bar the administration from immediately resuming the flights that last month carried hundreds of migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
Trump signs executive orders to help dying coal industry
The president directed federal agencies to loosen various restrictions on coal mining, leasing and exports.
Latest IRS chief to quit over deal to share data with immigration authorities
Acting IRS commissioner Melanie Krause—the tax agency’s third leader since President Donald Trump’s inauguration—will participate in the deferred resignation program offered by the Trump administration, sources say.
Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers
The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.
Trump’s DHS revokes legal status for migrants who entered the US on Biden-era CBP One app
Migrants who were temporarily allowed to live in the United States by using a Biden-era online appointment app have been told to leave the country “immediately,” officials said Monday. It was unclear how many beneficiaries would be affected.
Texas county that swung to Trump grapples with immigration crackdown after bakery is targeted
Leonardo Baez and Nora Avila-Guel’s bakery in the Texas community of Los Fresnos is a daily stop for many residents to share gossip over coffee and pick up cakes and pastries for birthdays, office parties or themselves.
State Supreme Courts have become an electoral battleground. But some states choose a different path
The race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court drew $100 million in campaign spending, attack ads and the attention of President Donald Trump and close ally Elon Musk.
Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was ‘wholly lawless’
The U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador appears to be “wholly lawless,” a federal judge wrote Sunday in a legal opinion explaining why she had ordered the Trump administration to bring him back to the United States.
China imposes a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products starting April 10
China announced Friday that it will impose a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10, part of a flurry of retaliatory measures following U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” slate of double-digit tariffs.
Rally and court hearing set for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison
Lawyers for a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador will ask a federal judge on Friday to order the Trump Administration to return him to the U.S.
States sue to block Trump’s election order, saying it violates the Constitution
Democratic officials in 19 states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states’ clear authority to run their own elections.
EEOC chief shifts focus to investigating DEI but the methods provoke an outcry
Former Democratic EEOC officials and prominent civil rights groups have accused the Trump administration of taking shortcuts that supersede its authority.