Supreme court expected to rule on birthright citizenship and trans athletes – US politics live
Anger grows over Monday’s ruling over Trump’s power to fire agency heads as court due to rule on president’s desire to withhold citizenship from those born in US Sign up for the Breaking News US email For a primer on birthright citizenship and why the stakes of the supreme court’s decision today on the issue are so high, here’s my colleague Maanvi Singhi’s reporting: A ruling in favor of the Trump administration would cataclysmically redefine what it means to be an American. Continue reading...
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34m ago05.28 EDT'Disastrous': anger at supreme court ruling expanding presidential powersHello, and welcome to the US politics live blog.In a significant victory for the president on Monday, the court granted him the ability to fire leaders of some independent US agencies at will, in a move one advocacy group called “disastrous.”The decision to expand presidential powers overturns a precedent set in 1935, rowing back a guardrail put in place to protect agencies against corruption and political interference.“Our authoritarian president was just handed the keys to be even more authoritarian, and the long-term consequences will no doubt be disastrous,” said Rachel Rossi, the president of Alliance for Justice, a progressive judicial advocacy group.Supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor has…
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