The Trump administration has moved to end Harvard’s ability to enrol international students, escalating a row with America’s oldest university. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X that the administration has revoked Harvard’s “Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law.” “Let this serve as...
This has been a matter of debate since the first Trump administration. Then as now, Democrats and other left-wing groups would file complaints in reliably left-leaning courts and some federal judge would issue a “nationwide injunction” to stop whatever the left wanted stopped. Attorney General Bill Barr was arguing this was a problem back in...
On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill aiming to curtail federal judges’ ability to issue nationwide restraining orders — an action that, if successful, would flout hundreds of years of judicial case law and precedent. Judges have always had the power to impose nationwide injunctions on local, state or federal governments and...