Jamelle Bouie

4 days ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie

On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance wrote a long defense of the administration's anti-immigrant rendition program, slamming critics who want the White House to obey a court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It is a notable example of the lengths the White House has gone to try to deceive the public as it deals with political fallout from its open defiance of the federal judiciary.

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Michelle Cottle |Jamelle Bouie |Derek Arthur

Another week, another show of contempt for the rule of law. Last week, the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man deported because of an "administrative error," back to his home in Maryland. But, so far, the administration has not complied.

1 week ago | timesfreepress.com | Jamelle Bouie

The Trump administration believes it can send anyone it wants, without due process or future legal recourse, to rot in a foreign prison. It has argued as much in court. Lawyers for the Justice Department have asserted the president's supposedly "inherent" authority to remove foreign nationals from the United States, and the White House is openly defying a court order to facilitate the return of an immigrant living in Maryland and sent, accidentally, to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie

But the Trump administration won't budge. Justice Department lawyers deny that the government has any responsibility to get Abrego Garcia home and insist that his removal wasn't a mistake, although they won't share the information that might support this claim on the grounds that it is sensitive and thus classified. The White House has also taken this position outside of the courtroom.

2 weeks ago | dtnext.in | Jamelle Bouie

It is a fool’s errand to try to rationalize President Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs. This is not to say that people haven’t tried. There are any number of theories that seek to explain Trump’s preoccupation with tariffs and trade wars. Perhaps he wants to revitalize American manufacturing and bring factory jobs back to postindustrial communities wracked by poverty and despair.