Jess Bravin
Supreme Court Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal
Supreme Court correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and author of 'SQUEAKY,' now an ebook: https://t.co/bReHMZGQhS Mastodon: @[email protected]
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6 days ago |
wsj.com | Jan Wolfe |Jess Bravin
Justices will hear oral arguments next month over legality of White House executive orderWASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear oral arguments next month over the legality of President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and foreign residents. The justices, in an unsigned order, for now left in place lower-court orders that have blocked the policy.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Jess Bravin
Administration is quick with emergency requests to the justices, counting on conservative majority to reverse lower-court lossesWASHINGTON—A cascade of Trump administration cases is flooding the Supreme Court, putting the justices on the spot over the administration’s aggressive moves to eliminate federal programs, abolish independent agencies and recast immigration law without congressional approval.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Jess Bravin
“I think what we’ve seen in the last 2½ months is just how mismatched in the modern world these two institutions—the executive and judicial branches—are,” said Vikram Amar, a law professor at the University of California, Davis. The executive branch can act quickly in several areas at once, while the courts are “ponderous. They are process-oriented, they need time for reflection,” he said. “And the Supreme Court is at its worst when it’s operating under time pressure,” he added.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Jess Bravin
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court told the Trump administration to seek the return of a migrant who officials mistakenly sent to a Salvadoran prison, rebuffing government claims that it need do nothing to remedy its error. There were no dissents noted in the order, which directed the government to take steps to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29 years old, back to the U.S. from the maximum security facility it sent him to on March 15.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Jess Bravin
Abrego Garcia entered the U.S. without authorization from El Salvador while a teenager. A 2019 immigration court order had forbidden repatriating him, after finding he faced threats from a local gang that targeted his family’s pupusa food business. The administration maintained that its only error was sending him to El Salvador rather than to a third country, and that federal courts had no power to command officials to retrieve him once he was in custody of a foreign government overseas.
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The Supreme Court told the Trump administration to seek the return of a migrant it mistakenly sent to a Salvadoran prison, an error it refused to remedy https://t.co/z9JJZxYc9S via @WSJ
The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the go-ahead to cancel millions of dollars in federal teacher-training grants awarded to the states https://t.co/92eI26bmXC via @WSJ
The legal war between President Trump and his opponents is playing out in a very specific geography: the federal courts in blue states https://t.co/bFh5Cc9w9l via @WSJ
