Lindsay Whitehurst

6 days ago | argus-press.com | Nicholas Riccardi |Lindsay Whitehurst

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must give more than 100 migrants sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador a chance to challenge their deportations. U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg said that people who were sent to the prison in March under an 18th-century wartime law haven’t been able to formally contest the removals or allegations that they are members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Lindsay Whitehurst

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration two victories Friday in cases involving the Department of Government Efficiency, including giving it access to Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans. The justices also separately reined in orders seeking transparency at DOGE, the team once led by billionaire Elon Musk. The court’s conservative majority sided with the Trump administration in the first Supreme Court appeals involving DOGE.

1 week ago | kwtx.com | Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer |Ben Finley |Lindsay Whitehurst

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador became a political flashpoint in the Trump administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement, was returned to the United States on Friday to face criminal charges related to what the Trump administration said was a large human smuggling operation that brought immigrants into the country illegally.

1 week ago | hjnews.com | Lindsay Whitehurst

By Lindsay Whitehurst Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down a unanimous ruling in a religious rights case, finding that a Catholic charity in Wisconsin can't be required to pay unemployment taxes when other religious groups are exempt. The high court said the state's tax decisions created an advantage for groups with a more overtly religious tone in their daily work, a violation of the First Amendment.

1 week ago | isp.netscape.com | Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer |Lindsay Whitehurst |Ben Finley

By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and BEN FINLEYAssociated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador became a political flashpoint in the Trump administration's stepped-up immigration enforcement, was returned to the United States on Friday to face criminal charges related to what the Trump administration said was a large human smuggling operation that brought immigrants into the country illegally.