Closing summary
This brings our live coverage of the second Trump administration to a close for the day. Here are the latest developments:
The US supreme court ruled 6-3 that the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump using emergency powers are illegal and the president
took it wellreacted with fury and vowed to find a way to impose even more import taxes using legal authorities he does have.Later in the day, the president signed a proclamation to impose global 10% import taxes on goods from all nations, with a long list of exceptions, that can only stay in place for 150 days.
The president read an angry denunciation of the court to the assembled press corps at a White House news conference which had apparently been drafted for social media because it concluded with the phrase “Thank you for your attention to this matter”, words Trump read aloud.
The president called on a series of reporters for fringe, pro-Trump outlets at the news conference who helped him to boost his message instead of challenging him.
Writing on his social media platform on Friday night, Trump continued his tirade, saying the six justices who ruled that the tariffs he imposed under the guise of a fictional “emergency” were illegal “should be ashamed of themselves.”
Critics of the president’s tariffs argued that refunds of the illegally collected tariffs are necessary.
The Pentagon announced on social media that the US military killed three suspected drug smugglers in a strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday.
Federal judge in West Virginia compares ICE to 'secret police' in order releasing asylum-seeker detained without cause
In a scathing opinion, a senior federal judge in West Virginia on Thursday ordered the release of a 21-year-old Salvadoran man with a pending asylum claim and legal work permit who was stopped without cause and detained by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on 7 January.
The US district court judge, Joseph Goodwin, prefaced his order granting the release of Anderson Jesus Urquilla-Ramos by saying that “Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice” to the unrestrained exercise of power by masked federal agents.
He continued:
Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government—masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind—are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process. The systematic character of this practice and its deliberate elimination of every structural feature that distinguishes constitutional authority from raw force place it beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order. It is what the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent. It is what the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment forbids.
“The use of masks and other tactics that obscure official identity carries historical and semiotic weight,” Goodwin, who was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1995, added. “In this nation’s history, the Ku Klux Klan relied on masks to terrorize victims while concealing accountability.”
“With this background in mind,” the judge added, “the ICE tactics of anonymous enforcement in this case contravene the history, purpose, and modern interpretation of the Fourth Amendment.”
In his conclusion the judge wrote: “An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society.”
