It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
The Justice Department’s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump’s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.
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.
Shawn Monper, of Butler, Pa., also threatened immigration agents in comments on YouTube, federal prosecutors said.
The legislation is part of an escalating Republican campaign to take aim at judges who have moved to halt some of President Trump’s executive orders.
A federal judge in California had ordered the Trump administration to rehire government employees fired as part of its efforts to slash the federal work force.
Inside the Justice Department’s civil division, lawyers are squeezed between judges demanding answers and bosses’ instructions to protect the Trump agenda at all costs.
To President Trump, Judge James E. Boasberg is “a troublemaker” and a “Radical Left Lunatic.” But his record and biography, including a friendship with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, say otherwise.
Job and program cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services have teed up court challenges and prompted bipartisan criticism in Congress.
The ruling, in a case seen as a test of the president’s push for expansive executive authority, cripples the operations of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Board.
A temporary order will give some migrants a chance to convince the government that deporting them to “third countries” such as El Salvador would put them at risk.