The ruling is not a repudiation of Alien Enemies Act deportations and focuses solely on migrants’ due process rights. For the second time in less than a month, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled against the Trump administration’s dubious use of an 18th century law to deport immigrants including at least one person with...
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling marks one of the most alarming judicial rollbacks of LGBTQ rights in recent memory. On Thursday, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk — a far-right federal judge in the Northern District of Texas with a record of aligning with the GOP’s most extreme legal positions — issued a ruling declaring that Title VII no...
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has frequently been criticized for “photo ops and costume changes” since taking on the role. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reportedly in the beginning stages of teaming up with a famed reality television producer to create a show in which immigrants would compete for the chance to become a...
Embedded in the House GOP’s advancing reconciliation package is a major, long-sought victory for school privatization advocates that would let rich funders of vouchers avoid taxation, a change that opponents warned would supercharge the right-wing assault on public education. The measure, which resembles the GOP-authored Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA), was tucked into the...
In his first live interview since his release from ICE detention, Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi recounts the traumatic experience of his arrest and incarceration. Mahdawi, a green card holder who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, was arrested in Vermont on April 14 when...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in a case relating to President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to unilaterally redefine the meaning of the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause. At issue before the court, however, wasn’t the order itself, but rather the topic of nationwide injunctions — sometimes referred to as “universal...
Private equity companies have gobbled up group homes and other services for people with disabilities, attracting the attention of state and federal regulators across the nation and alarming advocates. People with intellectual or developmental disabilities have suffered abuse, neglect and even death while under the care of private equity-owned providers, according to a recent report...
An internal document bolsters warnings that the hunt for fraud is a pretext for slashing Social Security benefits. An internal Trump administration document reportedly shows that anti-fraud checks recently installed at the Social Security agency have found just two cases of potentially improper benefit claims out of more than 110,000 — a rate of 0.0018%....
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its third year, Ukraine’s left-wing community is continuing its work fighting both neoliberalism and Russian aggression. Sotsialnyi Rukh or “Social Movement” is Ukraine’s largest and oldest democratic socialist organization. Founded in the aftermath of the Euromaidan protests of 2013-14, Sotsialnyi Rukh has held steadfast to its principled leftist politics...
Missouri voters passed a voter-led ballot initiative enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution last year. Republican lawmakers in the Missouri state legislature have approved a referendum proposal for voters to decide on that, if passed, would upend newly enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution. Last November, Missouri was one of seven states to...
Abortion rights defenders and scientists expressed deep concern after U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remarks about mifepristone, a key medication used to end pregnancies, at a Wednesday congressional hearing. During the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) inquired about the secretary’s previous pledge to...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on May 14 that the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States dropped by nearly 27 percent in 2024. The number represents a significant decrease after more than a decade of steeply climbing drug-related fatality rates that billions of dollars in federal spending on...
When the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was established in 1949, it started its operations in Jerusalem. Nobody expected that it would be forced to shut down its activities in the face of Palestinian refugees in the city who still needed its services. Even more perversely, Palestinians could never have imagined that the...
Transportation of immigrants to ICE jails and countries that have agreed to accept them is a billion-dollar business. As the Trump administration is ramping up detentions and deportations in an effort to reach its goal of removing 1 million immigrants by the end of this year, new air carriers have signed contracts with Immigration and...
The Trump administration claimed Suri’s opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza made him a national security threat. On Wednesday, a federal court ordered the release of Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri, an Indian postdoctoral student who was abducted by U.S. immigration officials two months ago, after a judge found that he was improperly denied his...