
Henry Gass
Texas Writer at The Christian Science Monitor
Texas reporter/#SCOTUS @csmonitor. England born, D.C. bred, Canadian buttered. gassh(at)csps(dot)com. DM for Signal #YNWA
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3 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Henry Gass
Revisiting a landmark policy from his first term, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Wednesday night restricting the ability of nationals from 19 countries to enter the United States. The move echoes the travel ban, referred to by critics as a “Muslim ban,” Mr. Trump ordered in 2017.
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3 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Henry Gass
Of all of President Donald Trump’s deals, none may be more consequential than the one he struck in 2016 with Leonard Leo. The Federalist Society, President Trump announced, would manage his judicial appointments. Four years and 226 judges, including three U.S. Supreme Court justices, later, Mr. Trump made the federal judiciary much younger and much more conservative.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Henry Gass |Caitlin Babcock
Amid a running separation-of-powers battle between President Donald Trump and the federal courts, Congress is stepping forward with an audacious proposal. The House of Representatives last week passed a more than 1,000-page budget and spending bill, the Trumpian-titled “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” Buried in the bill is a paragraph that experts say would neuter, at least in the short term, a key judicial power.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Henry Gass
In the past two weeks, two White House officials have floated the idea that President Donald Trump could suspend habeas corpus. Enshrined in the U.S. Constitution to protect people from being unlawfully detained, habeas claims have emerged as an effective obstacle to the Trump administration’s efforts to deport large numbers of immigrants from the country.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Henry Gass
A home security camera captured a defining image of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts. On March 25, masked and plainclothes immigration officers stopped Rümeysa Öztürk on the street in Somerville, Massachusetts; handcuffed her; and placed her in an unmarked vehicle. A roughly one-minute-long video captured it all. What happened next, out of the public eye, also exemplifies the government’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement.
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