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Hassan Kanu

Washington, D.C., United States

Reporter at POLITICO

Staff Writer @TheProspect Sierra Leonean 🇸🇱. MoCountyBoy. Continuously depressed Wizards fan. @DukeLaw alum but @Morehouse 4eva.

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  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Hassan Kanu

    A three-judge panel was skeptical of arguments that the administration is facing imminent harm. Journalists raise their hands to ask questions as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Hassan Kanu |Erica Orden |Josh Gerstein

    A federal judge on Wednesday found probable cause to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt for what he said was a “willful disregard” of his order to stop transferring deportees to El Salvador for imprisonment in a notorious maximum security prison. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found that the government last month rushed to fly two planes carrying hundreds of passengers to the Salvadoran prison in the hours after the judge barred the government from doing so.

  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Hassan Kanu |Sophia Cai |Ben Johansen |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 | | | | FIRST IN WEST WING PLAYBOOK: Several members of DOGE met with the president of the government-funded nonprofit Legal Services Corporation on Monday, a person familiar with the matter told West Wing Playbook.

  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Kyle Cheney |Josh Gerstein |Hassan Kanu

    Move over Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban. Donald Trump’s latest strongman bromance is with “President B.” Though Trump has long admired foreign authoritarians, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s repressive regime is in some ways the beta test for Trump 2.0. Bukele calls himself the “world’s coolest dictator.” Trump said he would be a dictator on Day 1.

  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Hassan Kanu

    Donald Trump is trying to use a historic federal civil rights commission to advance his agenda on issues like alleged non-citizen voting, antisemitism on college campuses and transgender women in sports. It would be a dramatic shift for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which was created nearly 70 years ago to investigate discrimination and guide the development and enforcement of the nation’s civil rights laws.

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