President Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza would have to overcome or ignore many serious obstacles, including that forcibly removing its entire population would be a violation of international law. But aside from legal challenges, there is the hard fact that unexploded munitions litter the territory after months of Israeli bombardment, posing a lethal danger … Read more
President Trump is poised to move forward with sweeping tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum on Monday, re-upping a policy from his first term that pleased domestic metal makers, but hurt other American industries and ignited trade wars with allies on multiple fronts. The 25 percent tariffs that the president said he would impose on … Read more
There is no universally accepted definition of a constitutional crisis, but legal scholars agree about some of its characteristics. It is generally the product of presidential defiance of laws and judicial rulings. It is not binary: It is a slope, not a switch. It can be cumulative, and once one starts, it can get much … Read more
A federal judge in New Hampshire issued an injunction Monday blocking President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, the third federal judge to do so. The executive order instructed the government to stop recognizing as citizens any children who are born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrant parents. Judge Joseph N. Laplante of the U.S. … Read more
A federal judge in New Hampshire issued an injunction Monday blocking President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, the third federal judge to do so. The executive order instructed the government to stop recognizing as citizens any children who are born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrant parents. Judge Joseph N. Laplante of the U.S. … Read more
Standing inside the Capitol for the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Trump declared his plans to resurrect an idea he had in his first term: to create a national garden filled with statues of notable Americans. The choice of who would be included would be “the president’s sole opinion,” Mr. Trump said, chuckling. And … Read more
No state’s political order has been more upended by President Trump’s return to power than that of his adopted Florida. Mr. Trump stacked his new administration with Floridians, leaving powerful positions vacant. Ambitious Republicans have jockeyed to fill them through special elections or appointments by the governor. The reshuffling has empowered Gov. Ron DeSantis, a … Read more
The vast farmlands just off the coast of California’s Monterey Bay are usually quiet during the winter, when there are no crops to pick. This winter, a different kind of stillness has taken hold. First, fears of immigration raids paralyzed the immigrant communities that make up the agricultural work force. And now, anxiety has spread … Read more
In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the S.S. Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry. He was not a U.S. citizen, they said. Never mind that Mr. Wong had been born in San Francisco’s Chinatown, … Read more
Starting in 2019, Justice Clarence Thomas has repeatedly called for the Supreme Court to reconsider New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark First Amendment decision that made it hard for public officials to prevail in libel suits. That project gained momentum in 2021, when Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said the decision “has evolved into an … Read more