Charlie Savage

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Charlie Savage

The president has grown increasingly angry at court rulings blocking parts of his agenda, including by judges he appointed. President Trump appears to be declaring independence from outside constraints on how he nominates judges, signaling that he is looking for loyalists who will uphold his agenda and denouncing the conservative legal network that helped him remake the federal judiciary in his first term.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Charlie Savage |Alan Feuer

The remaining intelligence agencies disagree with the F.B.I.'s analysis tying the gang, Tren de Aragua, to Venezuela's government. An F.B.I. intelligence memo unsealed on Wednesday offers new details on why the bureau concluded that some Venezuelan government officials were likely to have had some responsibility for a criminal gang's actions in the United States, pitting it against other intelligence agencies in a heated dispute over President Trump's use of a wartime law.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Glenn Thrush |Charlie Savage

President Trump announced Wednesday that he would nominate Emil Bove III, the polarizing and widely feared top Justice Department official responsible for strong-arm tactics in enacting Mr. Trump's immigration agenda, to be a federal appeals judge. Mr. Bove, 44, a former criminal defense lawyer for Mr. Trump, would fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Charlie Savage

WASHINGTON — President Trump has suffered a string of court losses in recent days as federal judges ruled that his administration broke the law on a number of matters, including firing officials, shutting down organizations and deporting migrants. But if the decisions all point in the same direction -- Trump and his team have acted lawlessly in egregious ways, judges emphatically said -- the real-world consequences may vary.

2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Charlie Savage

WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump has suffered a string of court losses in recent days as federal judges ruled that his administration broke the law on a number of matters, including firing officials, shutting down organisations and deporting migrants. But if the decisions all point in the same direction - Mr Trump and his team have acted lawlessly in egregious ways, judges emphatically said - the real-world consequences may vary.