In a historic first, a federal judge on Thursday barred President Trump and his Administration from using an 18th Century law to deport a group of Venezuelan men now being held in a government detention center in a small town in Texas. The 36-page ruling by U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr.., of Brownsville, Texas,… Read More

Behind the scenes at the Supreme Court, the Justices and their law clerks are pondering how to deal with the constitutional controversy over the citizenship of children born in the U.S. to foreign parents – a historic dispute that is now set for a special hearing three weeks from now. At the center of that… Read More

The government official that President Trump seems most eager to fire – the Federal Reserve Board’s chairman – might be the one that the Supreme Court will keep on the job. Trump and Fed chair Jerome Powell have feuded for years – lately as well as in Trump’s first term in the White House –… Read More

A constitutional controversy that has agitated the nation from time to time for well over a century will be examined anew by the Supreme Court in a review that, in the end, might sweep broadly or it might leave much still undecided. In an order Thursday afternoon, the Court set a special hearing for next… Read More

President Trump, in an overnight post on his Truth Social online site, appears to be ready to defy the Supreme Court on a highly significant constitutional controversy, but maybe in a way that the Court will allow. Trump’s Administration is under an order from the Supreme Court, issued last Thursday, to “facilitate” the release of… Read More

In a rare act of unanimity, the Supreme Court on Thursday night ruled that government officials must take some unspecified steps to try to bring back to the U.S. a Maryland man sent illegally to a brutal prison in his home country, El Salvador. The order, quite unusual for an often-split Court, set no deadlines… Read More

The Trump Administration, in its boldest legal maneuver so far, asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to settle in the next few months the long-standing constitutional dispute over how much power Presidents have to run the national government. The issue, still in some doubt after 237 years of the Constitution’s history, is this: did the… Read More

A deeply divided Supreme Court on Monday afternoon shut down a federal judge’s efforts to stop the Trump Administration from secretly deporting foreign nationals under an 18th Century wartime enemies law, but ruled unanimously that anyone facing that threat from now on must first get a chance to pursue a court challenge. By a vote… Read More

The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the federal government narrow authority to limit the spread of do-it-yourself kits that are used to make guns that cannot be traced after being used in a crime. The ruling on so-called “ghost guns” was important, but it also could easily be misunderstood as broader than it actually was…. Read More

Government lawyers, in a new race through the federal courts, are claiming an unlimited power for President Trump – an authority intended for use only in wartime that has been used just three times during actual wars. That is an authority, granted by Congress 236 years ago, that would allow Trump to deport immediately any… Read More