Why Due Process Matters Plus: A listener asks who was the better president: Trump or Obama? Reason · Apr 21, 2025
Democrats Say They Will Keep Going To El Salvador To Advocate For Due Process And The Release of Abrego Garcia? Democratic lawmakers say they will keep traveling to El Salvador to focus on defending due process and the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Latin Times · Apr 21, 2025
Google Accused of Photoshopping El Salvador Prison in Google Earth After Internet Goes Wild Over 'Blood Stain' Speculation surrounding a Google Earth image of El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center has increased following a new photo some believe is photoshopped. Latin Times · Apr 21, 2025
Alito and Thomas May Trust Trump To Follow a Court Order, but Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett Seemingly Do Not Understanding the Supreme Court's unusual late-night ruling against the Trump administration Reason · Apr 21, 2025
House Democrats land in El Salvador to push for return of Kilmar Ábrego García Four representatives join effort to challenge the Trump administration’s refusal to facilitate the immigrant’s release The Guardian - US · Apr 21, 2025
Lawful permanent residents like Mahmoud Khalil have a right to freedom of speech – but does that protect them from deportation? The Trump administration has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 foreign university students since January 2025. Many of the individual cases that have made headlines center on foreign-born university students who participated in Palestinian rights protests. The Conversation · Apr 21, 2025
Endowments aren’t blank checks – but universities can rely on them more heavily in turbulent times The Trump administration is demanding that at least 60 U.S. colleges and universities change their policies or lose out on billions of dollars in federal funding. The Conversation · Apr 21, 2025
JD Vance issues statement as Pope dies hours after meeting him US vice president JD Vance issued a statement after Pope Francis died just hours after meeting with him ... The National (Scotland) · Apr 21, 2025
US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days Official claimed Jose Hermosillo, who was visiting Arizona, was ‘without the proper immigration documents’ The Guardian - US · Apr 20, 2025
Pope Francis has ‘brief’ meeting with JD Vance on Easter morning The pontiff has previously clashed with the U.S. Vice President over the Trump administration’s immigration policies The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2025
80 years after atomic bombs devastated Japan, Donald Trump’s actions risk nuclear proliferation The policy of every American president since Harry S. Truman has been to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The Conversation · Apr 20, 2025
The Trump administration wants Apple to build iPhones in the U.S. — here's why that will be hard to pull off Trump administration officials are talking about the prospect of bringing tech manufacturing from overseas to the U.S. The iPhone is a good example of why that would be hard to pull off. Tom’s Guide · Apr 20, 2025
Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Trump From Deporting Venezuelans Under 18th Century Wartime Act The United States Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily stop deporting Venezuelan nationals who are alleged gang members, using an 18th-century wartime law as a legal basis for the order. Latin Times · Apr 19, 2025
Is Trump Administration Confrontation with Harvard Due to a Mistake? An interesting report that suggests some internal disagreement over how to handle higher education. Reason · Apr 19, 2025
Reason · Apr 19, 2025 Supreme Court Issues Unusual Order in Alien Enemies Act Deportation Case The order temporarily blocks AEA deportations. It likely also reflects the Court's growing frustration with the Trump Administration.
The Guardian - US · Apr 19, 2025 US supreme court orders temporary halt to deportations of Venezuelan men Order is latest example of the courts challenging the Trump administration’s overhaul of the immigration system
Salon · Apr 19, 2025 The grassroots fight for Abrego Garcia "We have not lost faith in any way that he will be returned," Maryland activist Cathryn Jackson told Salon
Newslaundry · Apr 19, 2025 Hafta 533: Murshidabad violence, National Herald case, Trump targets Harvard This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by senior journalist Nirmalya Mukherjee and NewsX editorial director Priya Sahgal.
The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2025 Judges pauses Trump policy restricting transgender passport choices, finding it’s rooted in ‘irrational prejudice’ Judge found that group of nonbinary and transgender plaintiffs were likely to succeed on argument that Trump administration violated constitutional guarantees of equal protection
The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2025 Arizona governor vetoes bill requiring local officials to help with federal immigration efforts Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a Republican-backed bill intended to support the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown
The Guardian - US · Apr 18, 2025 Kilmar Ábrego García ‘traumatized’ by threats in prison, Maryland senator says Chris Van Hollen describes meeting with constituent held in Salvadorian prison against supreme court order
The Independent UK · Apr 18, 2025 Judge blocks Trump administration’s from passport changes affecting transgender Americans A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers
Latin Times · Apr 18, 2025 Trump Admin Bombarded With Demands for Epstein Files After Releasing RFK Assassination Files: 'Promises Made, Promises Broken' Social media users are accusing the Trump administration of not keeping its promise to release all of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The Independent UK · Apr 18, 2025 Federal judge pausing Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs at the CFPB A federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ruled that the agency can’t go forward immediately with plans to mass fire hundreds of employees
The Conversation · Apr 18, 2025 ‘I never issued a criminal contempt citation in 19 ½ years on the bench’ – a former federal judge looks at the ‘relentless bad behavior’ of the Trump administration in court Legal battles between the Trump administration and advocates for deportees flown to prison in El Salvador have turned into conflicts between the government and the judges overseeing those cases. One federal judge, James Boasberg, accused Trump administration lawyers of the “willful disregard” of his order in March to halt those…