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US Supreme Court Lifts Order Barring Deportations Using Wartime Law

This is Beirut, 08/04 05:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The US Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a victory on Monday by lifting a lower court order barring the deportation of undocumented Venezuelan migrants using an obscure wartime law. But the nation's top court also said that migrants subject to deportation under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act must be given an opportunity to legally ...

US Judge Orders Trump Admin To Save ‘Signalgate’ Chat

This is Beirut, 28/03 05:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A US judge ordered Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to preserve messages from a chat group used by top national security officials to discuss plans for an attack on Yemen's Huthi rebels. The ruling adds to the pressure on the White House after the Atlantic magazine revealed that its editor had been accidentally added to the group ...

From El Salvador mega-jail, Trump's homeland security chief tells migrants 'do not come'

This is Beirut, 27/03 05:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump's homeland security chief on Wednesday visited the mega-prison in El Salvador where hundreds of Venezuelan migrants have been deported under contested legal grounds. Standing in front of a cell of inmates who were stripped to the waist, revealing their tattooed torsos, Kristi Noem recorded a message telling others ...

Appeals Court Rejects Trump Bid to Lift Order Barring Deportations

This is Beirut, 27/03 03:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A US appeals court on Wednesday denied a bid by the Trump administration to lift a lower court order barring summary deportations of Venezuelan migrants using an obscure wartime law. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to temporarily keep in place the ban on deportations carried out under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act ...

Israel's Opposition Calls for General Strike

This is Beirut, 23/03 05:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israel's opposition leader on Saturday called for a general strike if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to obey a Supreme Court decision freezing the government's dismissal of the internal security chief. If the government "decides to disobey the Court's decision it will become a government outside of the law," Yair ...

Trump Wants Supreme Court's Help Against Federal Judges Who Block His Agenda

This is Beirut, 21/03 05:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump demanded Thursday that courts stop blocking his agenda, edging closer to a constitutional showdown after a judge suggested the administration had ignored an order to block summary deportations. A federal judge, in a strongly worded order, gave the Justice Department until Tuesday to explain why it went ahead with flights ...

Trump Veers Towards Courts Clash Over Migrant Flights

This is Beirut, 18/03 02:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump barreled towards a showdown with the courts Monday after his administration expelled alleged members of a Venezuelan gang under little-used, centuries-old wartime legislation. Trump, already pushing the law to its limits on several fronts, also claimed he had annulled pardons issued by Joe Biden on the grounds that his ...

US Deports Over 200 Gang Members to El Salvador Despite Court Block

This is Beirut, 17/03 05:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The United States flew over 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be imprisoned in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele said Sunday, after US counterpart Donald Trump controversially invoked wartime legislation to expel them. The deportations took place despite a US federal judge granting a temporary suspension of the expulsions order, ...

Justice Minister Calls for Implementation of Ministerial Declaration from Bkerke

This is Beirut, 14/03 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Minister of Justice Adel Nassar stressed on Monday, from the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke, the need to implement the ministerial declaration aimed at limiting the possession of weapons to the Lebanese state. He emphasized that this measure was the essential starting point for state-building, calling for the establishment of ...

Judge Bitar Given Clearance by Hajjar to Continue Investigation Into Port Explosion

This is Beirut, 10/03 18:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Judge Tarek Bitar, who is in charge of investigating the Beirut port explosion case, will be able to continue his investigation, despite 34 appeals lodged against him by personalities against whom he had taken legal action. The acting public prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, Judge Jamal Hajjar, overturned a decision on Monday by his ...

Still No Ruling on New York's Mayor Corruption Case

This is Beirut, 20/02 05:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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A US federal judge peppered a top member of Donald Trump's Justice Department with questions Wednesday during a hearing over the office's extraordinary move to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams. The department's request prompted a wave of protest resignations within the Justice Department and at the mayor's ...

New York City Councils Calls for Mayor's Resignation

This is Beirut, 18/02 05:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The head of New York's city council on Monday called for the resignation of Mayor Eric Adams, days after the US Justice Department moved to dismiss a corruption case against him. Adams, who pleaded not guilty in September to charges of fraud and bribery, has denied allegations he asked for the case to be dropped in exchange for enforcing ...

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