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1 day ago | 
cbsnews.com | Jacob Rosen |Jake Rosen |Scott MacFarlane
Washington — A homeland security official who served during President Trump's first term and who authored an anonymous op-ed criticizing him is speaking out after he was targeted by the president in an executive memo. Miles Taylor, who was chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security and left the Trump administration in 2019, said learning of the memo was a "gut punch" that has taken a devastating toll.
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1 day ago | 
cbsnews.com | Camilo Montoya-Galvez |Ellee Watson |Jacob Rosen |Jake Rosen
A top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official on Thursday detailed what she said were deplorable and unsafe conditions faced by ICE staff and a group of migrants with criminal records who were transferred to a U.S. military base in the African country of Djibouti after a federal judge blocked officials from deporting them to South Sudan.
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2 days ago | 
cbsnews.com | Jacob Rosen |Jake Rosen
The Trump administration has returned a Guatemalan man to the United States after a judge determined he was wrongly deported without due process, his legal team told CBS News. The man, who has gone by O.C.G. in court proceedings, landed in the United States today and made contact with lawyers representing him after he landed, said Trina Realmuto, one of his attorneys and the executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance.
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2 days ago | 
cbsnews.com | Jacob Rosen |Jake Rosen |Camilo Montoya-Galvez |Melissa Quinn
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the Trump administration to give more than 100 Venezuelan men it sent to a supermax prison in El Salvador earlier this year a chance to contest their deportation, the latest development after months of legal battles over the fate of the deportees. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found that the 137 men removed to El Salvador on March 15 under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act had been "plainly deprived" of their due process rights.
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3 days ago | 
cbsnews.com | Jacob Rosen |Jake Rosen
The Trump administration is threatening California with steep fines and legal action days after a transgender athlete won two statewide high school track-and-field events, ramping up the legal threats aimed at the state over transgender issues.
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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Jacob Rosen |Jake Rosen
PBS CEO on Trump targeting funding PBS on Friday sued President Trump and his administration over an executive order signed earlier this month that seeks to cut funding to the public TV network and NPR. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and comes days after NPR and three Colorado-based public radio stations separately sued the Trump administration over the same executive order.
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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Scott MacFarlane |Jacob Rosen |Jake Rosen
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is pressing the new U.S. pardon attorney for more details about President Trump's recent pardons, claiming the traditional system of applying for clemency has been replaced with "favors to the President's loyal followers and most generous donors."In a letter to newly appointed pardon attorney Ed Martin, Democratic Rep.
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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Jacob Rosen |Jake Rosen
The federal government is working to secure a charter flight to return a man who was removed from the U.S. back to America so he can have proper due process proceedings, the Justice Department said in court documents filed Wednesday. Last week, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy ordered the man, only known by the initials O.C.G., to be returned to the United States after he found that necessary due process steps in his removal proceedings were "ignored" by the Trump administration.
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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Jacob Rosen |Jake Rosen
New Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin has discussed pardon applications for some of the only remaining Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants who weren't given full clemency by President Trump, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, a lawyer told CBS News. Peter Ticktin, an attorney working to secure full pardons for a number of Jan. 6 defendants, told CBS News he met with Martin last week to discuss pardon requests for Rhodes and 10 others.
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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kathryn Watson |Jacob Rosen |Jake Rosen
Details on Trump's targeting of law firms A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday struck down President Trump's executive order targeting D.C.-based law firm WilmerHale, declaring the order "unconstitutional" and permanently blocking the administration from enforcing it.
