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A three-judge panel for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals again unanimously rejected a Trump administration request to overturn a lower-court order requiring it to secure the freedom of a Maryland man it erroneously sent to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
The latest update in the ongoing legal saga of the 2024 North Carolina state Supreme Court election.
An independent federal agency is going forward with President Donald Trump’s sweeping elections executive order despite a barrage of lawsuits challenging it as an assault on states’ constitutional authority to run their own elections.
The latest filing boosts Riggs’ chances of prevailing in the ongoing election saga.
A federal judge Wednesday said he’d found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court for showing “a willful disregard” toward his March 15 orders requiring it return to the U.S. the hundreds of Venezuelan migrants it sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), an 18th century wartime law.
Meanwhile, Jefferson Griffin could be bolstered by a separate GOP scheme to gain power over elections.
The Trump administration said Monday the U.S. government will not return a Maryland resident it erroneously sent to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
State Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs held a rally in Raleigh on Monday morning over the recent court rulings.
Around 60,000 ballots will be counted in the ongoing state Supreme Court race.
The Trump administration is ordered to lay out steps for bringing Kilmer Abrego García back to the U.S.