On Monday evening, the U.S Supreme Court ruled that, at least for now, the Trump administration can continue invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport migrants. The ruling comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order last month asserting his right to use the law. The ruling wasn’t a total win for...
The Duke of Sussex has arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice before an appeal in his legal challenge over his security protection when in the UK. A High Court judge ruled last year that there had been no unlawfulness in a decision to downgrade Prince Harry’s security status. The prince has not been automatically...
The US Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to continue to use a rarely-invoked wartime powers law to carry out rapid mass deportations of alleged gang members – for now. A lower court had temporarily blocked the deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador on 15 March, ruling that the administration’s actions...
President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the Supreme Court to block lower court rulings requiring that a man deported to El Salvador be returned to the US. A federal judge in Maryland ordered the government to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back by Monday night. The order was upheld by an appeals court on Monday. The...
Tom Singleton & Liv McMahon Technology reporters Getty Images A judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations – including the BBC – and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret. The Home Office wants the right to be...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that may cut off Planned Parenthood from Medicaid funding. Planned Parenthood says the move violates the Medicaid Act’s “free choice of provider” provision, which says patients are entitled to choose their own doctors. The case, brought by the state of South Carolina, could impact the...
More documents about the relationship between Prince Andrew and an alleged Chinese agent of influence are being released to BBC News on Friday. The court papers about Yang Tengbo’s alleged activities in the UK are becoming public after a legal battle including other media outlets for more transparency in the semi-secret case. Mr Yang has...
Jean Mackenzie Seoul correspondent Watch: South Korean court removes President Yoon from office South Korea’s president has been removed from office after the Constitutional Court voted unanimously to uphold his impeachment. Yoon Suk Yeol was suspended from duty in December after being impeached by parliament, following his failed attempt to impose martial law. The ruling...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Drake, pictured holding two Billboard music awards, is the most-successful rapper of his generation Drake has been given the green light to access sensitive record company documents in his ongoing defamation case over Kendrick Lamar’s song Not Like Us. The star had asked for copies of Kendrick Lamar’s recording...
Hungary’s government has announced it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The move was announced by a senior official in Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government hours after Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who is sought under an ICC arrest warrant, arrived in Hungary for a state visit. Orban had invited Netanyahu as soon as...
The government has defended its policy of adding VAT to private school fees, telling the High Court it enhances “the fairness of the tax system overall”. Barristers representing Chancellor Rachel Reeves, as well as HMRC and the Department for Education, said they wanted to raise standards for the 94% of children who attend state schools...
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti said he “never thought about committing fraud” as he testified in court in Spain over tax evasion charges. The Italian is accused of failing to pay 1m euros (£830,000) in tax on his Real salary during his first spell in charge from 2013 to 2015. Ancelotti began his second stint...
Nomia Iqbal in Milwaukee & Max Matza BBC News Getty Images Susan Crawford’s win means liberal control of the state’s top court is retained Wisconsin voters have elected a Democratic-backed judge to serve on the state supreme court, according to projections, following the most expensive judicial election in US history. Susan Crawford is on course...
Britain’s Fran Jones was helped off court in a wheelchair after collapsing during a match in Colombia. Jones was attempting to serve in the ninth game of a deciding third set in Bogota when she fell to the floor. The 24-year-old initially lay on her back before rolling on to her side as she was...
Norwegian athletics coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen told a court on Monday he “loves” his children and was just an “overly protective” father as he denied abuse allegations. Ingebrigtsen, 59, is on trial in Norway accused of physically and mentally abusing his 24-year-old son Jakob and another of his children. Double Olympic champion Jakob said when giving...