Slate: The Supreme Court’s new 5–4 bailout for Trump couldn’t be more ominous
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory on Monday night, lifting a restraining order that had prevented the mass deportation of migrants to an El Salvador prison under an 18th century wartime law. By a 5–4 vote on the shadow docket, the justices crushed the migrants' sweeping class action in D.C. and forced them to proceed with narrower suits through more hostile courts in Texas. The majority’s unsigned, thinly reasoned decision will make it significantly easier for the administration to illegally ship off innocent people to a Salvadoran prison, where all their constitutional rights–and quite possibly their lives–will be snuffed out. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a staggering dissent, “we, as a nation and a court of law, should be better than this.” But in the view of five justices, it seems that we, as a nation, are not.
Monday’s order lends undeserved legitimacy to a program that has been brazenly illegal from the start. In mid-March, Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to justify summarily deporting Venezuelan migrants to the notorious CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador. The act applies only to a “foreign nation” that conducts an “invasion or predatory incursion” into the United States during a “declared war.” Trump claimed that Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, constitutes a “foreign nation” that is “invading” U.S. territory, which is obviously untrue. Nonetheless, he immediately directed immigration officials to round up migrants, often on the basis of nonexistent evidence, and fly them to CECOT. On March 15, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found this plot to be unlawful and ordered the government to turn around two planes carrying migrants to El Salvador. The Trump administration refused, defying Boasberg’s order, and contempt proceedings are ongoing.
NYT: Wall Street Bursts With Anger as Trump Tariffs Cause Stock Market to Swing Wildly
The day after the president announced his most sweeping round of tariffs last week, chief executives from major banks, including Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, had a private meeting with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick organized by a lobbying group in Washington. But Mr. Lutnick was not persuaded to reverse course, three people briefed on the sit-down said.
Over the weekend, megadonors to Mr. Trump’s re-election effort tried a different tack, pleading their case in calls to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, people familiar with the calls said. Those efforts also came up empty.
CBC: How safe is B.C.’s safe federal Green Party seat?
Some polls show May currently running third behind the Conservatives' Ounsted and the Liberals' Beckham, but May’s campaign says polls like 338canada are misleading because they look at the past election results, what is trending nationally and then provide an aggregated projection.
“I don’t put a lot of confidence in polls,” May told CBC News recently while campaigning in Saanich.
“When I was elected here in 2011, there wasn’t a single poll that thought I had a chance, so I relied more on what I heard on the street when I’m going door to door.”
NYT: Trump Administration Freezes $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern, Officials Say
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
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The moves are the latest and largest in a rapidly escalating campaign against elite American universities that has resulted in billions in federal funds being suspended or put under review in just over a month. Other schools that have had funds threatened include Brown, Columbia, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton.
The attacks continue.
Last Updated: 08.Apr.2025 23:55 EDT
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