Josh Kovensky

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Nicole Lafond |Kate Riga |Josh Kovensky

Hello, it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear arguments related to President Trump’s executive order that purports to white out the guarantee of birthright citizenship from the Constitution. These arguments will focus on a narrow facet: whether district judges properly issued universal injunctions against the order, or rulings that block a policy or law for the whole country and not just the plaintiffs who brought the suit.

6 days ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Josh Kovensky

The way attorney Jamie Diez describes it, visiting the El Valle Detention Center was usually straightforward. After making the 50-minute drive from Brownsville, he told TPM, he would usually stroll in unannounced. Officials would, after a wait, bring Diez, an immigration attorney, whichever client he was seeing that day. He was so used to El Valle that, on March 15, he showed up wearing shorts.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Josh Kovensky

The way attorney Jamie Diez describes it, visiting the El Valle Detention Center was usually straightforward. After making the 50-minute drive from Brownsville, he told TPM, he would usually stroll in unannounced. Officials would, after a wait, bring Diez, an immigration attorney, whichever client he was seeing that day. He was so used to El Valle that, on March 15, he showed up wearing shorts.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Nicole Lafond |Kate Riga |Josh Kovensky

Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️President Trump wants to send to Congress a chunk of the DOGE federal funding cuts that Congress, in a properly functioning democracy, should have voted on in the first place.

1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Josh Kovensky

Close allies of President Trump are asking a judge to give the White House control over much of the federal court system. In a little-noticed lawsuit filed last week, the America First Legal Foundation sued Chief Justice John Roberts and the head of the Administrative Office of U.S. CourtsThe case ostensibly proceeds as a FOIA lawsuit, with the Trump-aligned group seeking access to judiciary records.