President Donald Trump’s administration can temporarily revoke the legal status of over 500,000 migrants living in the US, the US Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The ruling put on hold a previous federal judge’s order stopping the administration from ending the “parole” immigration programme, established by former President Joe Biden. The programme protected immigrants fleeing...
AFP/Getty The Trump administration has said it will take its tariffs case to the Supreme Court Friday, unless an order that struck down many of President Donald Trump’s new import taxes is put on hold. In a filing on Thursday, lawyers for the White House asked the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to...
The state of Oklahoma may not direct public state funding to what was set to be the nation’s first religious charter school after the US Supreme Court deadlocked over the case. The justices were evenly split, voting 4-4 in a ruling on Thursday. The tie affirms a lower ruling from the Oklahoma State Supreme Court,...
The Supreme Court has upheld the legal right to wild camp on Dartmoor, unanimously dismissing an appeal against Dartmoor National Park Authority made by Dartmoor landowners Alexander and Diana Darwall. The Darwalls had sought to overturn a Court of Appeal ruling handed down in July 2023 which restored the right to wild camp following a...
BBC The legal right to wild camp on Dartmoor has been upheld by the Supreme Court in a decision that is likely to reignite the debate over public access to land in England. Judges unanimously rejected an appeal by landowners Alexander and Diana Darwall who said people should not be able to camp without permission...
The US Supreme Court has said it will allow the Trump administration to terminate deportation protections for some 350,000 Venezuelans in the US. The ruling lifts a hold that was placed by a California judge that kept Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in place for Venezuelans whose status’ would have expired last month. Temporary Protected Status...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Last week, North Carolina Democrats scored a victory when Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin, who’d lost a tight race for the state’s Supreme Court, finally conceded...
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...
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...
“I’m glad the will of the voters was finally heard,” incumbent state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs said. A conservative state judge in North Carolina who attempted to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in order to win a state Supreme Court race against a liberal incumbent has finally conceded the election, more than six...
The justice secretary has said it is “absolutely unacceptable” to question the validity of the Supreme Court after it ruled that the term “woman” is defined by biological sex. Speaking to Parliament’s Human Rights Joint Committee, Shabana Mahmood said judges at the UK’s highest court “provided the legal clarity in their legal decision which is...
Judge Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge who helped escort a criminal illegal alien out of her chambers to evade arrest, was just suspended from her job by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, saying Tuesday that it is in the public interest...
Avalon Victoria McCloud, pictured in 2010 when she was sworn in as a Queen’s Bench Master, stood down from High Court work last year The UK’s only ever judge to publicly reveal they are transgender is planning to take the government to the European Court of Human Rights over the Supreme Court’s ground-breaking ruling on...
Maine Rep. Laurel Libby has appealed her censure to the Supreme Court, arguing that Maine’s legislature is silencing her and also her constituents by not allowing her to vote. ???? BREAKING: Rep. Laurel Libby files an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to restore the voice of House District 90 — and defend constitutional...