A federal judge in Maryland, temporarily defusing a showdown with the White House, ordered the Trump administration on Friday to provide daily updates about its progress toward returning a man who was unlawfully deported to El Salvador last month. The instructions by the judge, Paula Xinis, came at the end of a contentious day on […]
Steve Shand (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) , Harshkumar Patel (Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office via AP) A federal court justice, on Tuesday, denied applications for fresh trials of two individuals found guilty on charges related to human smuggling. The case involved the tragic deaths of four Indians who died of extreme cold while […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
