After a week of court challenges — and market swings — The New York Times journalists Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and Jonathan Swan discuss how President Trump is consolidating power in his second term.
Nineteen state attorneys general had sued to block Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing Treasury systems that include Americans’ bank account and Social Security information.
A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.
Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, second from right, during a demonstration in support of her husband, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, in Greenbelt, Md., last week. Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers have called his deportation “a Kafka-esque mistake.”
A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.
Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, second from right, during a demonstration in support of her husband, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, in Greenbelt, Md., last week. Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers have called his deportation “a Kafka-esque mistake.”
As legal challenges to the Trump administration mount, the justices are facing a key test — a flood of “emergency applications” asking for immediate intervention.
The Trump administration has made emergency requests of the Supreme Court in recent weeks to intervene on actions including freezing more than a billion dollars in foreign aid, deporting Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador without due process and ending birthright citizenship.
Given the country’s extreme polarization, there is something to be said for giving voters a voice in judicial elections unconstrained by district lines in gerrymandered states.
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