Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.
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Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say
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Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his…

Judge Says Khalil’s Deportation Case Can Be Heard in New Jersey
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Judge Says Khalil’s Deportation Case Can Be Heard in New Jersey

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A New York federal judge on Wednesday transferred the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate detained by the Trump administration this month, to New Jersey, where his lawyers will continue their efforts to seek his release. Mr. Khalil, a leader of…

Trump Administration Pushes Back Against Judge’s Orders on Deportations
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Trump Administration Pushes Back Against Judge’s Orders on Deportations

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been waging a multifront attack on the federal judge who is deciding whether the president may use a wartime statute to deport people suspected of belonging to a Venezuelan street gang. Lawyers for the Justice…

Courts Defer to Executive Branch Factual Claims. Trump Complicates That.
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Courts Defer to Executive Branch Factual Claims. Trump Complicates That.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The government typically has an advantage when defending its policies against legal challenges. Courts generally defer to the executive branch’s factual declarations and formal representations about what is happening and why, rather than probing for what may actually be going on. But the…

The Deportation Rationale – The New York Times
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The Deportation Rationale – The New York Times

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s promised immigration crackdown is here. Over the past two weeks, his administration has pushed against the limits of executive power — and surpassed them, critics say — to kick more people out of the country. The administration has readied two facilities…

Timeline of Trump’s Deportation Flights, From Alien Enemies Act to Judge’s Order
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Timeline of Trump’s Deportation Flights, From Alien Enemies Act to Judge’s Order

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The federal judge’s ruling was clear: The Trump administration could not use an obscure wartime law from the 18th century to deport people without a hearing. If any planes were already in the air, the judge said, they should turn back. That did…

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Leader, Sees Opportunity in Trump’s Deportations
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Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Leader, Sees Opportunity in Trump’s Deportations

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Shortly after the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador this weekend, the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, posted a three-minute video on social media. It featured shackled men being marched off a plane over a dramatic electronic soundtrack and into prison,…

Deported Professor Rasha Alawieh Attended Hezbollah Leader’s Funeral, D.H.S. Says
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Deported Professor Rasha Alawieh Attended Hezbollah Leader’s Funeral, D.H.S. Says

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it had deported a Brown University professor and doctor with a valid visa because they said she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral in February during a trip to Lebanon. When questioned by Customs and…