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Supreme Court allows Trump administration to lift deportation protections for Haitians, Syrians

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to lift deportation protections for Haitians, Syrians

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The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation. The 6-3 decision overturns lower court orders and allows the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly end temporary protected status, a programme that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries. The Trump administration argued that judges can’t second-guess immigration officials’ decisions about the protections, which were intended to be temporary. Immigration attorneys said the countries remain unsafe to return, and the administration ended them in an unlawfully hasty process tinged by racial animus. During his 2024 presidential campaign, US President Donald Trump amplified false rumours that Haitian immigrants were abducting and eating dogs and cats. Trump’s fake claim of Haitians eating pets To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you …

Supreme Court sides with marijuana user stripped of gun rights

Supreme Court sides with marijuana user stripped of gun rights

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People listen to a tour guide speak outside the U.S. Supreme Court, where justices are expected to issue opinions on pending cases, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 18, 2026. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a marijuana user on Thursday by limiting the application of a federal law that bars drug users from owning guns, finding that certain prosecutions under the measure intrude on the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.” The justices, in 9-0 ruling, upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss an illegal gun possession charge brought under the law at issue against Ali Hemani, an American-Pakistani dual citizen and resident of Texas who told authorities he was a regular marijuana user. President Donald Trump’s administration had defended the law in the case. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, who authored the ruling, said the government had not “carried its conceded burden of showing its prosecution of Mr. Hemani complies with the Second Amendment.” A 1968 federal law called the Gun Control Act makes possession …

Colorblindness won’t fix inequality

Colorblindness won’t fix inequality

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(RNS) — The Supreme Court’s latest ruling on voting rights rests on a faulty premise — the idea that the best way to address racial inequality is not to consider race at all. In its ruling, the court shifted the burden of proof for race-based gerrymandering of congressional districts from demonstrating discriminatory effects to proving racist intent. Its harm may extend not only to minority representation in Congress and state legislatures, but to race relations and to Christian witness. For several decades now, many white Christians have been taught to see “colorblindness” as a virtue — a sign of spiritual maturity that rises above division. But the 1965 Voting Rights Act was born from a confrontation with the color line. Faced with poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses, measures to circumvent federal law and disenfranchise Black voters, Black Christians mobilized as a matter of human rights and God-given dignity. They spoke with moral clarity about the issues of their day, including segregation, lynching, police brutality and the denial of voting rights. The Black church …

Supreme Court hears birthright citizenship case, Trump in room

Supreme Court hears birthright citizenship case, Trump in room

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People demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s expected arrival on April 01, 2026 in Washington, DC. Al Drago | Getty Images The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday on whether an executive order by President Donald Trump can upend what has long been the constitutional guarantee of citizenship for people born in the U.S., regardless of their parents’ immigration status. Trump was in the courtroom for the arguments in the birthright citizenship case known as Trump v. Barbara, the first time a sitting president has attended such a session. Trump stayed for more than an hour, listening to the presentation by Solicitor General D. John Sauer, who defended the executive order, and then left. “We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post after leaving. If Trump’s order is upheld, it would leave tens of thousands of babies born in the U.S. each month to undocumented immigrants or visitors without American citizenship. Trump, in his first …

Supreme Court conservatives lean toward Republican bid to limit mail-in voting

Supreme Court conservatives lean toward Republican bid to limit mail-in voting

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People gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 14, 2026. Will Dunham | Reuters Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled skepticism on Monday toward a Mississippi law challenged by Republicans that allows a five-day grace period for mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted in a case that could lead to stricter voting rules around the country. Republican President Donald Trump’s administration argued in favor of the challenge to Mississippi’s law, which permits mail-in ballots sent by certain voters to be counted if they were postmarked on or before Election Day but received up to five business days after a federal election. Absentee voting by mail is limited to a few categories of voters under the law including elderly people, the disabled and those living away from home. The Supreme Court heard arguments in Mississippi’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that deemed its mail-in ballot law illegal. The dispute centered on whether federal laws setting Election Day for federal elections preempt state laws in various states that …

Loosening grip? Trump skirts setbacks in State of the Union speech – The Debate

Loosening grip? Trump skirts setbacks in State of the Union speech – The Debate

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What does a boss who’s built an image as a tough guy from Queens do when naysayers claim he’s reached his limits? To dispel doubts, he can for instance hold the floor for an hour and 47 minutes. In the longest ever State of the Union address, US President Donald Trump proved he can stick to script instead of rambling. Trump was as combative as ever: bashing immigrants, Iran, the opposition Democrats and even the US Supreme Court for last week’s ruling striking down many of his tariffs, the biggest pushback yet for a president who’s wielded historically grand executive powers since returning to office 13 months ago. We ask about his plans to not only double down on tariffs – he’s saying they can replace income taxes – but to do so without congressional approval. Read moreTrump’s marathon State of Union: Big claims and the questions he left unanswered We weigh Trump’s methods, his arguments and ask about blurred lines between public policy and personal interest. As a term-limited president approaches midterm elections that could further corner …

Trump threatens countries that would ‘play games’ with tariffs 

Trump threatens countries that would ‘play games’ with tariffs 

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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump threatened nations Monday (Feb 23) with punishing hikes on import duties if they choose to “play games” after the US Supreme Court struck down his global tariffs last week. “Any Country that wants to ‘play games’ with the ridiculous supreme court decision, especially those that have ‘Ripped Off’ the USA for years, and even decades, will be met with a much higher Tariff, and worse, than that which they just recently agreed to,” Trump wrote on social media. The high court’s decision has dealt a sharp blow to Trump’s economic agenda, of which tariffs – and his ability to impose them rapidly – have been a key feature. For now, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has said that he expects partners to “stand by” the tariff deals they have struck with Washington. After Supreme Court ruled against Trump’s country-specific tariffs last week, saying he exceeded his authority in tapping emergency economic powers to impose them, the US leader turned to a separate law to announce new 15-per cent duties on …

US Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s sweeping tariffs

US Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s sweeping tariffs

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The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a stinging loss that sparked a furious attack on the court he helped shape. The decision could have ripple effects on economies around the globe after Trump’s moves to remake post-World War II trading alliances by wielding tariffs as a weapon. But an unbowed Trump pledged to impose a new global 10% tariff under a law that’s restricted to 150 days and has never been used to apply tariffs before. Keywords for this article Source link