The Supreme Court effectively blocked the judiciary’s ability to stop Trump from implementing a huge range of policies. Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. President Donald Trump has said that he is “promptly”...
The top court in the US has ruled judges in lower courts have limited ability to block presidential orders, giving President Donald Trump what he called a “giant win”. The case surrounded whether Trump’s attempt to use an executive order to end birthright citizenship for non-citizens and undocumented migrants was allowed. In a 6-3 ruling,...
Getty Images The Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship to go into effect The Supreme Court on Friday handed a significant victory to Donald Trump – and future American presidents – when curbing lower courts’ power to block executive orders. President Trump was beaming as he addressed reporters at the...
Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Watch: Should judges be able to block Trump on birthright citizenship? The Supreme Court is expected to decide one of the most consequential cases in modern US history on Friday – whether a single federal judge can block an order from the US president from taking effect nationwide. The...
A referendum in Italy on easing citizenship rules and enhancing workers’ rights has been declared invalid. Around 30% of voters participated – well short of the 50% threshold required to make the vote binding – in the poll, which began on Sunday and ran until 15:00 (14:00 BST) on Monday. The ballot featured five questions...
Sarah Rainsford BBC correspondent BBC Sonny Olumati was born in Italy – but still has no citizenship at 39 Sonny Olumati was born in Rome and has lived in Italy all his life but the country he calls home does not recognise him as its own. To Italy, Sonny is Nigerian, like his passport, and...
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...
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...
Bernd Debusmann Jr and Kayla Epstein BBC News Watch: Should judges be able to block Trump on birthright citizenship? US President Donald Trump took his bid to end birthright citizenship to the US Supreme Court on Thursday, in a case that could help further his agenda on immigration and other issues. The case asks whether...
Curious indeed. The Trump administration had petitioned the Supreme Court for stays in three different challenges on Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. The easiest action to take would have been to ignore the requests and let the cases play out, likely well into the next Supreme Court term. Instead, the court decided to...
Immigration officials called him in for what was supposedly his final interview to become a U.S. citizen. Immigration officials abducted a Palestinian Columbia University student, Mohsen Mahdawi, in Vermont on Monday, after they summoned him for what was supposed to be his final test to obtain his American citizenship. Mahdawi, a green card holder, received...
Getty Images Mr Mahdawi participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University An organiser of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by immigration officials as he attended an interview as part of his application for US citizenship, his lawyer says. Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder who is due to graduate next month from...
Three separate district courts have placed injunctions on Trump’s order, which seeks to redefine the 14th Amendment. The White House has filed a request to the U.S. Supreme Court for justices to block several stays issued by federal court judges relating to President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to redefine the birthright citizenship clause of...