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On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear the arguments linked to the decree of President Trump who claims to whiten the guarantee of citizenship of the right of birth of the Constitution.
These arguments will focus on a narrow facet: that district judges are properly issued universal injunctions against the order, or decisions that block a policy or law for the country and not only the complainants who have brought the prosecution.
In a sudden 180 of the Biden administration, the law turned against this type of reparation, because the judges frequently levied it against the hurricane of Trump decrees. Its allies to the Chamber even recently adopted a bill to limit the power of federal judges in this area (although it is not clear if it will go anywhere in the Senate).
The Trump administration argues that it is being disproportionately and unfairly paralyzed by a blatant number of these judicial blockages. The applicant, an organization that recommends the rights of immigrants, says that this argument only holds if you ignore the context.
“According to the Federal Register, President Trump has already published more decrees in the past six weeks than any president in an entire year since President Truman in 1951, in the midst of the Korean War,” Casa lawyers wrote.
The resentment of universal injunctions when used against a president you support is a bipartite company. Under Biden, the Democrats were furious that antagonists and the State of Texas returned to divisions with only one or two right -wing judges again and still, finally guaranteeing a government action blocked for a few months. Democrats, however, were less a “blow of everything that” is folded. Many in the Congress have proposed various reforms, including routing petitions for universal injunctions against the federal government through the DC district court or three judge panels like those used in redistribution affairs.
This piece of the case will have massive ramifications, in particular for the scope of the power of Trump. While the congress abdicated his supervisory powers, he left the courts as a singular bulwark against the captures of Trump. And these arguments are only the tip of the iceberg of the litigation of the citizenship of the right of birth, where a victory for Trump would shred the constitution and would renew one of its most fundamental promises.
– Kate Riga
Here is what other TPM has to pressure this weekend:
- Josh Kovensky wrote the order of Friday in the case of Rümeysa Öztürk and the climate of the fear that the Trump administration strives to instill very hard among the non-citizens.
- Emine Yücel unplied the president of the Tong of President of President Trump this week: he would have spent a few hours immersing his toes in progressive policy (taxing the rich) only to reverse the course on social social a few hours later.
- Emine also verifies the former member of the disgrace Congress George Santos, while he publicly pleads for Trump to grant him “a switching, a leniency, whatever”!
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Tearing up campus
If you are not an American citizen, you are already living in an authoritarian state.
Since Trump took office, many non-citizens present in the United States have kept critical opinions towards the United States government for themselves for fear of retribution. The same goes for the criticism of American politics towards Israel – many are not silent that the government will hold them and will withdraw them to express a dissident opinion. They have good reasons to feel this: officials of the Trump administration boasted of revoking the visas of foreign students on their speech. Look at the emblematic case of the Turkish student Rümeysa Öztürk. The plainclothes ice officers owned her in the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts in March. She was quickly sent to the detention of immigration to Louisiana. The government said he had revoked his visa and arrested him on the basis of a article that she co-written with three others for a student newspaper tofts last year who criticized Israel.
Friday, a federal judge of Vermont (Öztürk was briefly detained before being transferred to Louisiana) ordered it.
The judge said the case could abolish “the speech of millions and millions of people in this country which are not citizens”, so that they “can now avoid exercising their first amendment rights for fear of being taken to a detention center” and that, for these reasons and others, Öztürk, “continuous detention cannot bear”.
“There was no evidence that was introduced by the government other than OP-ED,” explaining why it should continue to be detained, “said the judge.
The release of Öztürk does not restore its ability to be in the country. She always faces the withdrawal of the United States. This goes to the limited power of the courts: they can slow down these cases. In some cases, they can clearly reverse illegal or capricious decisions. But you do not have to look for further than what Secretary of State Marco Rubio said about the case in March to remember the climate of fear that they are trying to integrate very hard among the non-citizens: Öztürk had not received a visa to “become a social activist who tears our university campuses”, he said.
– Josh Kovensky
Trump flirts by taxing the rich, withdraws immediately
In a surprising decision this week, President Donald Trump would have asked Republican leadership to increase taxes on the rich, apparently within the framework of a regime to appease a group of republicans who fell on the way in which Trump's reconciliation bill, as constituted, would increase the deficit.
These instructions were apparently short -lived as shortly after, he sinkfully tried to bring him back.
“The Republicans should probably not do it, but I am fine if they do it !!!” Trump wrote in a Friday morning Post social post.
The back and forth come while intraparty tensions have landed in the open air this week. Republicans are trying to find a way to create a set of reconciliation that includes all Trump's priorities without adding to the deficit. It turns out to be a Herculean task.
Let's put the taxes on the side for a second. Another big question remains, leaving the divided republicans: how are they going to promulgate the Medicaid cups exactly?
Vulnerable Republicans, aware of how these cuts will be unpopular, continue to insist so that they do not support a set of reconciliation which would include deep cuts in Medicaid. But a separate group of the Républicaine Conference of the Chamber has considerably blocked things this week, threatening not to vote for the bill if it adds to the federal deficit (which would be very difficult to do without massive cuts on the social security net).
The Energy and Trade Committee, which oversees Medicaid's discounts, should meet on Tuesday at 2 p.m. on Tuesday to mark its part of the bill, according to a person familiar with the calendar.
– Emine Yücel
Words of wisdom
“I'm going to have a switching, a leniency, everything that the president is ready to give me.”
It is the former representative George Santos (R -DY) publicly asked President Donald Trump a release card this week – just two weeks after being sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
In the event that you need a refreshment, Santos is the former besieged legislator who lied and made his way in a siege in the congress in 2022, while TPM helped to discover. He served the congress for less than a year before being expelled from the room by his colleagues. He pleaded guilty in August from last year for committing wired fraud and aggravated identity theft to finance his campaign.
“Seven years and three months in prison for a first offender in the Matters campaign only shouts the top”, and I would appreciate if the president considered it, “added Santos.
We will see if the White House comes to the rescue of the former member of the Congress in disgrace who, in the words From his own lawyers, “everyone hates”.
– Emine Yücel
