Trump’s DOJ allies search to oust decide who questioned deportation order: Live updates
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to replace District Court Judge James Boasberg for allegedly engaging in an “inappropriate exercise of jurisdiction” as he oversees a case challenging the administration’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
Judge Boasberg attempted to block Trump’s deportation flights carrying hundreds of people linked to the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador over the weekend, disputing the invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act 1798 and ordering planes already in the air to turn around.
On Monday, he demanded answers as to why that was not done as Trump allies including Attorney General Pam Bondi, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and advisers Alina Habba and Stephen Miller hit the airwaves to rebuke the judge for overstepping his authority in challenging an executive order from the president.
The commander-in-chief has meanwhile announced that he is revoking the Secret Service protection afforded to Joe Biden’s children Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden and pledged to release 80,000 pages of unredacted files related to the assassination of John F Kennedy.
On Tuesday, Trump will call his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the Ukraine war.
Trump’s DOJ allies seek to oust judge who questioned deportation order
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has asked a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to replace District Court Judge James Boasberg for allegedly engaging in an “inappropriate exercise of jurisdiction” as he oversees a case challenging the administration’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
Judge Boasberg attempted to block Trump’s deportation flights carrying hundreds of people linked to the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador over the weekend, disputing the invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act 1798 and ordering planes already in the air to turn around.
On Monday, he demanded answers as to why that was not done as Trump allies including Attorney General Pam Bondi, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and advisers Alina Habba and Stephen Miller flooded the airwaves to rebuke the judge for overstepping his authority in challenging an executive order from the president.
Alex Woodward and Josh Marcus have the latest.
JFK’s killing has fascinated America for 60 years. But are we about to find out anything new?
But should the world expect much from them?
The answer is murky, at best.
Katie Hawkinson reports.
Amid backlash from funding bill vote, Chuck Schumer delays book tour over ‘security concerns’
Schumer was scheduled to appear in New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore this week to promote his new book titled Antisemitism in America: A Warning, but now the events have been postponed.
Rhian Lubin has the latest.
Gold ‘everywhere’: How Trump has completely transformed the Oval Office
Donald Trump’s first eight weeks back in the White House have been a whirlwind but the president has still found time for one of his passions: interior decoration.
Not content with firing out executive orders, raising and lowering tariffs and unnerving the stock markets and America’s allies alike, the president has been busy redesigning the Oval Office, ensuring its furnishings, fixtures and ornaments are more in keeping with his personal taste.
And for Trump, that means gold. And plenty of it.
Joe Sommerlad has the story.
He voted for Trump. Now his Peruvian wife is stuck in ICE custody
A Wisconsin man who voted for President Donald Trump is devastated after his Peruvian wife was detained by Immigration Customs and Enforcement.
Newlyweds Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz were on their way home after honeymooning in Puerto Rico last month when they were pulled aside by an immigration agent at the airport.
Rhian Lubin reports.
French official calls for US to give back Statue of Liberty
Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament, made the remarks at a convention of the Place Publique center-left movement Sunday.
Michelle Del Rey has the story.
MAGA is obsessed with the Epstein files — Why?
As we await the release of supposedly unredacted files relating to the assassination of President John F Kennedy, due Tuesday afternoon, Rhian Lubin takes a look at the last rollout of supposedly bombshell government files.
A former Proud Boys leader was freed from a 17-year prison sentence by Trump. Then his problems began
Richard Hall writes:
On the day Joe Biggs found out he was being released from a lengthy jail sentence by the newly inaugurated Donald Trump, a prison officer was on hand to dampen his mood.
“You’re still gonna get screwed,” Biggs recalls the guard warning him. “You’re not getting pardoned. You’re only getting your sentence commuted, so you’re still a terrorist.”
It would turn out to be a prescient parting shot.
Read on…
National Institutes of Health officials reportedly told scientists to erase mRNA vaccine references on grants
One vaccine scientist based in New York funded by the agency was warned that references to mRNA vaccines should not appear in any future applications after referring to them in previous ones.
Rhian Lubin has the details.
After Trump dismantles Voice of America, journalists sound off on ‘betrayal’
In what is being described as “Bloody Saturday,” over 1,300 employees at Voice of America were placed on indefinite suspension this weekend after President Donald Trump issued a Friday night edict ordering the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the network’s parent agency, to eliminate its workforce and activities not required by law.
With the state-funded broadcaster — which has been seen as a vital part of America’s soft diplomacy — going largely silent after more than 80 years on the air, VOA journalists and executives are sounding off over what they see as a “betrayal of the ideals” that drove the organization, adding that it will only be “celebrated” by America’s adversaries.
Justin Baragona reports.
Source: independent.co.uk
