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US judge tells White House to lift ban on Associated Press over ‘Gulf of Mexico’ dispute

A federal judge in Washington, DC, on Tuesday directed the White House to end its restrictions against Associated Press (AP), restoring the news agency’s access to president Donald Trump’s official events. The ban, which started on February 11, prevented AP journalists and photographers from entering the Oval Office and travelling on Air Force One. The […]

Who is Amy Coney Barrett? Trump appointed judge who sided with liberals on deportation ruling

The US Supreme Court on Monday quashed a lower court order that had blocked the deportation of undocumented Venezuelan migrants by the Trump administration under a wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.In the 5-4 ruling, chief justice John Roberts and four other conservative justices voted to lift the district court’s temporary block, […]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Federal Judge again orders Trump administration to return man wrongly deported to El Salvador

Representative image (Picture credit: AP) A US federal judge has, for the second time, ordered the Trump administration to return a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador, despite warnings he would face danger there.The man, 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, remains jailed in El Salvador’s infamous Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), after being […]

Rumeysa Ozturk: Judge transfers case of detained Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont

Judge transfers case of detained Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont (Picture credit: AP) A federal judge on Friday ordered the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, to be moved from Massachusetts to Vermont, where she was briefly held after her arrest by immigration officers last week.Ozturk’s lawyers had […]

Inter-American Foundation: Federal judge blocks Donald Trump’s attempt to dismantle Inter-American Foundation

File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: PTI) A US federal judge on Friday blocked US President Donald Trump’s move to dismantle the Latin America development agency, Inter-American Foundation (IAF), ruling that the administration likely overstepped its authority when it removed the agency’s leadership and froze its grants.US district judge Loren AliKhan, an appointee […]

Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be returned to US? Here’s what a federal judge said

A federal judge ordered that Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia has to be brought back to the US by April 7. Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month has to be brought back to the US no later than 11.59 pm on April 7, a federal judge ruled […]

NYC Mayor Eric Adams: Corruption case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams dismissed, judge rules out potential reindictment

A federal judge has dismissed the corruption case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams, ruling out any possibility of reindictment. The decision eliminates allegations of political interference, with Judge Dale Ho emphasizing that Adams’ political freedoms should not be compromised by prosecution threats. A US federal judge has dismissed the corruption case against New York City […]

Tufts luck: Indian-American educator, judge in eye of ICE storm over detention of Turkish scholar

The TOI Correspondent from Washington: The India-born President of Tufts University and an Indian-American judge are caught up in the turbulence surrounding the detention and prospective deportation of a Turkish scholar Rumeysa Ozturk, accused of pro-Hamas activism on the campus of an institution with more than 1200 international students, and strong ties with India. Sunil […]

US judge blocks Trump administration’s attempt to deport Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk accused of supporting Hamas

The Trump administration’s attempt to deport a Tufts University PhD student accused of supporting Hamas has been blocked by a federal judge.Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national pursuing her doctorate at Tufts, was arrested by ICE officers in Boston on Tuesday. The viral incident showed her visibly shocked as agents confiscated her phone dressed in plainclothes. […]

US judge blocks ‘disturbing’ Trump’s executive orders against law firms

US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump faced back-to-back legal blows by judges. After the CFPB, the judges temporarily blocked key parts of Trump’s executive orders targeting Jenner & Block and WilmerHale on Friday The legal firms challenged the Republican president’s actions in court, while Skadden Arps negotiated an agreement with the White House […]