Courts Must ‘Check the Excesses’ of Congress and the President, Roberts Says
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Courts Must ‘Check the Excesses’ of Congress and the President, Roberts Says

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. defended the independence of the judiciary and denounced any attempt to impeach judges over disagreements with their rulings during rare public remarks on Wednesday evening. “Impeachment is not how you register disagreement with a decision,” the chief…

Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight
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Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration is planning to transport a group of immigrants to Libya on a U.S. military plane, according to U.S. officials, another sharp escalation in a deportation program that has sparked widespread legal challenges and intense political debate. The nationalities of the…

Judge Orders Elections Board to Certify Democrat’s Victory in Contested N.C. Race
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Judge Orders Elections Board to Certify Democrat’s Victory in Contested N.C. Race

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge on Monday ordered the North Carolina Board of Elections to certify the results of a contentious State Supreme Court race, rejecting efforts from the Republican challenger to throw out thousands of votes. The ruling is the most significant legal victory…

Opinion | Donald Trump, You’re No Franklin Roosevelt
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Opinion | Donald Trump, You’re No Franklin Roosevelt

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines What followed was a blitz of action meant to ameliorate the worst of the crisis. “On his very first night in office,” the historian William E. Leuchtenburg (who died three months ago) recounted in his seminal volume, “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New…

Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t
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Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump, whose administration has insisted it could not bring Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador to the United States, said he does have the ability to help return the wrongly deported Maryland man, but is not willing to do so…

Opinion | A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency
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Opinion | A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Last month the House speaker, Mike Johnson, raised the possibility of eliminating some federal courts. “We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know,” Mr. Johnson told reporters. “We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding…

A Lengthy Legal Battle in North Carolina Could Show How to Flip an Election
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A Lengthy Legal Battle in North Carolina Could Show How to Flip an Election

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For months, Republicans in North Carolina have tried to do what President Trump and his allies could not in 2020: overturn an election that did not go their way. What began as a sprawling effort to throw out 65,000 votes from the state’s…

What We Know About Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan’s Arrest
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What We Know About Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan’s Arrest

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines F.B.I. agents arrested on Friday a Milwaukee judge accused of obstructing justice by directing an undocumented immigrant out of her courtroom through a side door while federal immigration agents waited in a hallway to arrest him. The arrest of the judge, Hannah C….

Who Is Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin Judge Arrested in Immigration Dispute?
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Who Is Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin Judge Arrested in Immigration Dispute?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Wisconsin judge who was arrested on Friday morning on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement spent most of her legal career working on behalf of low-income people and marginalized groups. Federal authorities arrested the judge, Hannah C. Dugan of the Milwaukee County Circuit…

Judges Worry Trump Could Tell U.S. Marshals to Stop Protecting Them
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Judges Worry Trump Could Tell U.S. Marshals to Stop Protecting Them

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines On March 11, about 50 judges gathered in Washington for the biannual meeting of the Judicial Conference, which oversees the administration of the federal courts. It was the first time the conference met since President Trump retook the White House. In the midst…