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Kevin Rector

Los Angeles

State and National Politics Reporter at Los Angeles Times

Legal affairs reporter @latimes, helping with 2024 election coverage. Past: @baltimoresun. Member: @NLGJA. DM me.

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  • 1 week ago | latimes.com | Kevin Rector |Michael Wilner

    It was just the latest example of President Trump, still in the infancy of his second term, appearing to plow through direct orders from a U.S. court. But it was the sharpest moment yet of a federal judge losing patience. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis had asked what the administration had done, if anything, to follow a ruling from the highest court in the land, and reached a stark conclusion. “To date, nothing has been done,” Xinis told the Justice Department lawyer before her Tuesday.

  • 1 week ago | flipboard.com | Kevin Rector |Michael Wilner

    A federal judge in Vermont questioned on Monday whether the Trump administration would instigate a "constitutional crisis" by not releasing a Turkish student at Tufts University from immigration custody if he concluded her arrest was unlawful. U.S. District Judge William Sessions raised that …

  • 1 week ago | cpapracticeadvisor.com | Kevin Rector |Jason Bramwell

    By Kevin RectorLos Angeles Times(TNS)LOS ANGELES - One after another in recent weeks, Maria's accounting clients raised the same fear: immigration agents finding and detaining them using information from their tax filings. "I heard it from everybody," said the 40-year-old consultant for undocumented small-business entrepreneurs in Southern California. "They come to me and they say, 'Hey, should I do my taxes this year?

  • 1 week ago | gazettextra.com | Kevin Rector

    LOS ANGELES - One after another in recent weeks, Maria's accounting clients raised the same fear: immigration agents finding and detaining them using information from their tax filings. "I heard it from everybody," said the 40-year-old consultant for undocumented small-business entrepreneurs in Southern California. "They come to me and they say, 'Hey, should I do my taxes this year? Because they're going to come find me.'"Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.

  • 1 week ago | thederrick.com | Kevin Rector

    LOS ANGELES — One after another in recent weeks, Maria's accounting clients raised the same fear: immigration agents finding and detaining them using information from their tax filings. "I heard it from everybody," said the 40-year-old consultant for undocumented small-business entrepreneurs in Southern California. "They come to me and they say, 'Hey, should I do my taxes this year?

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9 Apr 25

RT @SenAlexPadilla: Today, I met with Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported to a prison in E…

Kevin Rector
Kevin Rector @kevrector
9 Apr 25

RT @latimes: “I just did visas for a Coachella band and it was $8,000,” one booking executive said. “It’s becoming a huge financial hurdle…

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Kevin Rector @kevrector
9 Apr 25

OK so everyone is going with 'Yip, yip, hooray' for their headlines right?

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President Trump on why he paused tariffs: "I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid." https://t.co/kzoH6psG15