Josh Kovensky

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Articles

In Ukraine: Moving On From What?

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

Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️Secretary of State Marco Rubio started the day Friday by announcing that the United States might walk away from negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. “If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” he told reporters while on a trip to Paris. Rubio had just finished a meeting with European and Ukrainian officials about the war.
5 Points On How Judge Boasberg Broke Down The Admin’s Alien Enemies Contempt

1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Josh Kovensky

In a withering 46-page opinion on Wednesday, D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg laid out how he came to believe that the Trump administration was acting in bad faith during its Alien Enemies Act removals. Boasberg set the stage for potential contempt prosecutions in the order.
5 Points On How Judge Boasberg Broke Down The Admin’s Alien Enemies Contempt

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Josh Kovensky

In a withering 46-page opinion on Wednesday, D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg laid out how he came to believe that the Trump administration was acting in bad faith during its Alien Enemies Act removals. Boasberg set the stage for potential contempt prosecutions in the order.
Boasberg Issues Criminal Contempt Finding In Alien Enemies Act Case

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Josh Kovensky

D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for defying his order last month to turn planes around that were removing people to El Salvador under an Alien Enemies Act invocation.
Judge Orders Expedited Discovery Over Administration’s Abrego Garcia Defiance

1 week ago | yahoo.com | David Kurtz |Josh Kovensky

GREENBELT, MARYLAND – A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to make officials and documents available for an inquiry into whether they’re violating a court order to take steps to release a wrongly deported Salvadoran man from custody.
Trump, Bukele Condemn Abrego Garcia to Prison On Live TV

1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Josh Kovensky

It defies a Supreme Court ruling, flouts a lower court ruling, and undermines the basic principle that the government must provide due process before depriving someone of their freedom. Yet the man wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison will remain there indefinitely, President Donald Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said during a Monday Oval Office meeting.
Trump, Bukele Condemn Abrego Garcia to Prison On Live TV

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Josh Kovensky

It defies a Supreme Court ruling, flouts a lower court ruling, and undermines the basic principle that the government must provide due process before depriving someone of their freedom. Yet the man wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison will remain there indefinitely, President Donald Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said during a Monday Oval Office meeting.
Trump Admin Defies Court Order To Provide Basic Info On Man It Wrongly Deported

1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | David Kurtz |Josh Kovensky

GREENBELT, MARYLAND – The Trump administration defied a court order on Friday, telling a judge in writing and verbally that it could not provide information about a man that it admitted it wrongly deported to an El Salvador prison. At the court hearing, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis for the District of Maryland repeatedly asked a DOJ lawyer to provide basic information about the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported on March 15.
Trump Admin Defies Court Order To Provide Basic Info On Man It Wrongly Deported

1 week ago | yahoo.com | David Kurtz |Josh Kovensky

GREENBELT, MARYLAND – The Trump administration defied a court order on Friday, telling a judge in writing and verbally that it could not provide information about a man that it admitted it wrongly deported to an El Salvador prison. At the court hearing, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis for the District of Maryland repeatedly asked a DOJ lawyer to provide basic information about the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported on March 15.
SCOTUS Orders Trump Admin To ‘Facilitate’ Return Of Abrego Garcia

2 weeks ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Josh Kovensky

The Trump administration must “facilitate” the release of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the man who was wrongly deported last month to a labor camp in El Salvador, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. But the Court held short of ruling on how far the judiciary can go in mandating what efforts the government must take to “effectuate” his release, and asked a lower court to clarify what it meant when it used the word in an order.