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Hassan Kanu

Washington, D.C., United States

Reporter at POLITICO

Covering courts/regulatory law @politico. Priors @TheProspect @reuters @blaw. Sierra Leonean 🇸🇱. Continuously depressed Wizards fan. Alum @DukeLaw @Morehouse

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  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Hassan Kanu

    But the administration has resisted judges’ orders to facilitate the return of two other immigrants. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, center, boards a plane as she prepares to depart the Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport, May 27, 2025, in Rzeszow, Poland. | Alex Brandon/AP The Department of Homeland Security is working to place an immigrant who was improperly deported to Mexico onto a charter flight back to the United States, the Trump administration told a judge on Wednesday.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Hassan Kanu

    The Department of Homeland Security is working to place an immigrant who was improperly deported to Mexico onto a charter flight back to the United States, the Trump administration told a judge on Wednesday. The revelation is the first public sign that the Trump administration may comply with court orders to facilitate the return of at least one of the men who were found to have been deported without legally required due process.

  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Hassan Kanu |Ben Johansen |Sophia Cai |Irie Sentner

    Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond. | Subscribe | | | DOGE’s blitz on independent agencies has reached a historic federal civil rights commission responsible for investigating modern patterns of discrimination and guiding the response from Congress and law enforcement.

  • 2 weeks ago | politico.com | Kyle Cheney |Hassan Kanu

    The judge said the administration’s planned reductions were clearly aimed at carrying out Trump’s campaign-trail promise to eliminate the department altogether. The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington on Dec. 3, 2024.

  • 2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kyle Cheney |Hassan Kanu

    A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from firing thousands of workers at the Department of Education, ruling that the announced terminations were a thinly veiled effort to dismantle the entire department without congressional approval.

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14 May 25

RT @democracynow: Salvadoran Journalists Exposed Pres. Bukele's Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee to Avoid Arrest https://t.co/3AfvDu1wRB

Hassan Ali Kanu
Hassan Ali Kanu @hassankanu
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RT @joshgerstein: JUST IN: Trump administration lawyers have given Judge Boasberg documents they say show US "does not have constructive cu…

Hassan Ali Kanu
Hassan Ali Kanu @hassankanu
10 May 25

RT @joshgerstein: JUST IN: #fridaynightlegal rolls on as DOJ appeals to 9th Circuit a judge's ruling halting RIF firings and reorganization…