Tim Balk

3 days ago | nytimes.com | Tim Balk

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.

4 days ago | nytimes.com | Tim Balk

Legal challenges over the powerful wartime law have gone all the way to the Supreme Court. In the 36 days since President Trump invoked a powerful wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants accused of gang membership, a complex and high-risk legal battle has played out in the federal courts. The Supreme Court has weighed in twice, issuing orders limiting the government's use of the law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Tim Balk

Still, on Wednesday, the White House continued to exclude The A.P. from the press pool, the filing said. It requested the judge's "immediate assistance in enforcing" last week's order, citing the White House's "refusal to obey" the court's decision. Judge McFadden responded to The A.P.'s filing on Wednesday by scheduling a hearing in his court for Friday morning. The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for the Justice Department, Jane M.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Tim Balk

NowLondon CNN — The United Kingdom’s highest court ruled that the legal definition of “woman” excludes trans women, in a case with sweeping consequences for how equality laws are applied. Britain’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the definition of a woman in equality legislation refers to “a …

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Tim Balk |NYT Washington

The Trump administration appeared to deepen its standoff with a federal judge Saturday over the status of a man it wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison, ignoring orders to provide a plan to return him to the United States. A State Department official said in a two-page court filing that the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who had been living in Maryland before he was deported, was “alive and secure” in a terrorism confinement center in El Salvador.