Dareh Gregorian

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Dareh Gregorian

Dareh GregorianUpdated Mon, April 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM UTC6 min readEl Salvador President Nayib Bukele told reporters during a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday that he would not return a man the Justice Department said it had mistakenly deported to his country. "How can I return him to the United States? Like if I smuggle him into the United States?" Bukele said, sitting beside Trump in the Oval Office, when asked if he’d return Kilmar Abrego Garcia. "Of course I'm not going to do it.

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Dareh Gregorian |Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Lawrence Hurley |Gary Grumbach

The Supreme Court intervened this week in a number of cases involving President Donald Trump's efforts to dramatically transform the government, maintaining legal guardrails for deportations while also allowing the administration to continue with mass firings of federal workers. In all, the high court took action in four pivotal cases, while another federal appeals court gave the green light to more federal layoffs.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Dareh Gregorian |Gary Grumbach |Lawrence Hurley

A federal appeals court on Wednesday paused a lower court's ruling ordering the government to rehire around 24,000 probationary workers. "The Government is likely to succeed in showing the district court lacked jurisdiction over Plaintiffs’ claims," the 2-1 ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said, staying an order from last month that the workers be rehired. The panel said it was pausing the ruling until it decides the government's full appeal.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Dareh Gregorian |Gary Grumbach |Michael Kosnar

Judges showed some frustration this week with how the Trump administration has been defending itself in court, with one saying it appeared to have used "bad faith" tactics, another accusing it of using "disingenuous" arguments and a third saying it was making "inaccurate" claims. One of the judges, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, suggested he might hold contempt proceedings to hold the government to account for failing to comply with his orders.

3 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Frank Thorp V |Megan Lebowitz |Dareh Gregorian

WASHINGTON — Sen. Cory Booker set the record for the longest speech in Senate history Tuesday night in marathon remarks that began Monday evening and tore into what he called the Trump administration's "grave and urgent" threat to the country. Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, surpassed the previous record of 24 hours and 18 minutes set in 1957 by Sen. Strom Thurmond. And he's still going.