5 h. ago Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador

Chief Justice John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador

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3 d. ago Federal judge rules return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison

White House has said US courts can’t order return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose wife has been protesting outside courtA federal judge on Friday afternoon ordered the US to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison.The wife of the man, who was flown to a notorious Salvadoran prison had earlier joined dozens of supporters at a rally before a court hearing on Friday, where his lawyers had asked the judge to order the Trump administration to return him to the US. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘Cruel separation’: wife of mistakenly deported Maryland man pleads for his return

White House has said US courts can’t order return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was erroneously flown to El SalvadorThe wife of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador joined dozens of supporters at a rally before a court hearing on Friday, where his lawyers will ask a federal judge to order the Trump administration to return him to the US.Jennifer Vasquez Sura, a US citizen, hasn’t spoken to her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, since he was flown to his native El Salvador last month and imprisoned. She urged her supporters to keep fighting for him “and all the Kilmars out there whose stories are still waiting to be heard”. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Rally and court hearing set for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison

Lawyers for a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador will ask a federal judge to order the U.S. to return him

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5 d. ago Outrage grows over Maryland man's mistaken deportation to El Salvador prison

In the 22 days since Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to a notoriously violent prison in El Salvador, his young autistic son has sought comfort in the scent of his missing father’s clothes

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6 d. ago White House digs in after mistakenly deporting Maryland father to El Salvador

The Justice Department is arguing that the U.S. government is powerless to ask the Salvadoran government to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to American custody

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6 d. ago ICE admits 'administrative error' in deporting Maryland man to El Salvador

President Donald Trump's administration has admitted to mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison

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2 w. ago Trump says his administration won’t defy judges after multiple setbacks to his agenda in numerous court cases

Trump previously called for a District of Columbia federal judge who ruled against the administration to be impeached, prompting a rare rebuke from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts

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2 w. ago Chief Justice John Roberts hits back after Trump calls for impeaching judge who ruled against him

Trump has frequently lashed out at judges who move to constrain his sweeping claims of presidential authority

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2 w. ago John Roberts made Trump’s authoritarianism possible. He could still save his own legacy | Steven Greenhouse

The supreme court judge has emboldened and enabled Trump, but the president’s second term must surely have him worriedJohn Roberts, chief justice of the US supreme court, should be very worried about how history will regard him. Roberts sees himself as a cautious conservative committed to protecting our institutions, but it increasingly looks as if history will view him very differently – as a deeply flawed chief justice who paved the way for the US to become an authoritarian state.Roberts can’t possibly want to be viewed that way. But it is inarguable that several decisions he played a huge role in – most notably Citizens United and last year’s startling ruling that gave presidents far-reaching immunity from prosecution – helped lay the groundwork for Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian presidency. How could Roberts not realize that the immunity decision he authored would embolden Trump to violate law after law and act like an authoritarian? Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ‘Nothing like this in American history’: the crisis of Trump’s assault on the rule of law

Even if the supreme court were to resist the president’s onslaught, it has little means to enforce its decisionsWhen the chief justice of the US supreme court, John Roberts, delivered his bombshell ruling last July granting Donald Trump absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts, he laid out his vision of an expansive presidency. The executive, he wrote, should be “vigorous and energetic”, and free to carry out duties “boldly and fearlessly”.If that sums up Roberts’ ideal occupant of the Oval Office, then he has certainly got what he wants in the 47th president. In his first month back, Trump has vigorously fired tens of thousands of federal workers; energetically ignored congressional statutes; boldly run roughshod over the constitution; and fearlessly unleashed Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, in a slash-and-burn campaign against the US government. Continue reading...

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