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Today's Political News Compilation - Monday, March 24, 2025
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In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the US, alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025.
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Top Justice Department officials told a federal judge on Monday that the Trump administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to avoid giving him information about deportation flights from earlier this month that are at the center of a legal dispute over whether the government flouted his judicial commands.
“The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it,” Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top DOJ officials wrote in a filing to US District Judge James Boasberg. “Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address.”
“The information sought by the Court is subject to the state secrets privilege because disclosure would pose reasonable danger to national security and foreign affairs,” the officials wrote in the 10-page filing.
Boasberg is seeking the information to determine whether the government violated a pair of temporary restraining orders he issued on March 15 that temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport individuals the administration has accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
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In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the US, alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025.
El Salvador presidential press office/AP
Trump administration invoking state secrets privilege over deportation flight information sought by federal judge
Top Justice Department officials told a federal judge on Monday that the Trump administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to avoid giving him information about deportation flights from earlier this month that are at the center of a legal dispute over whether the government flouted his judicial commands.“The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it,” Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top DOJ officials wrote in a filing to US District Judge James Boasberg. “Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address.”
“The information sought by the Court is subject to the state secrets privilege because disclosure would pose reasonable danger to national security and foreign affairs,” the officials wrote in the 10-page filing.
Boasberg is seeking the information to determine whether the government violated a pair of temporary restraining orders he issued on March 15 that temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport individuals the administration has accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
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Trump taps his former defense attorney, Alina Habba, to be New Jersey's top federal prosecutor
President Donald Trump named his one-time defense attorney and current White House counselor Alina Habba to be the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.
apnews.com'Nazis got better treatment,' appeals court judge says of deportees in Alien Enemies Act case
U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett repeatedly pressed the Trump administration about the lack of due process protections for alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.
www.nbcnews.comDOGE cuts are testing some conservative voters' faith in special election for Matt Gaetz's old seat
As the Trump administration forges ahead with its dramatic reshaping of the federal government, voters in a northwest Florida district will be among the first to put the president’s agenda to an electoral test.
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It’s one of the most shocking national security indiscretions in years.
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Continue reading...Texas lawmakers consider measure prohibiting SNAP benefits from being used to purchase junk food
A bill making its way through the Texas legislature would bar people from using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits on junk food, including soda, energy drinks, candy, chips and cookies.
Senate Bill 379 would narrow the restrictions on the types of food people can purchase using SNAP funds, formerly known as food stamps.
Republican State Sen. Mayes Middleton, who authored the bill, said he filed the legislation to return to SNAP's original intent of focusing on nutritional food essential to health and wellbeing. Similar bills...
Continue reading...Senate Bill 379 would narrow the restrictions on the types of food people can purchase using SNAP funds, formerly known as food stamps.
Republican State Sen. Mayes Middleton, who authored the bill, said he filed the legislation to return to SNAP's original intent of focusing on nutritional food essential to health and wellbeing. Similar bills...
U.S., Russia expected to make statement following Black Sea ceasefire talks
The U.S. and Russia are expected to release a joint statement Tuesday morning after discussions in Saudi Arabia aimed at achieving a Black Sea maritime ceasefire deal, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
The statement is scheduled to be out at 4 a.m. in Washington, D.C., and 11 a.m. in Moscow, two of the sources said.
While the details of the statement were not immediately clear, reports shared with the Trump administration from the U.S. technical team in Riyadh seemed optimistic, the sources said.
Ukrainian officials have also been...
Continue reading...The statement is scheduled to be out at 4 a.m. in Washington, D.C., and 11 a.m. in Moscow, two of the sources said.
While the details of the statement were not immediately clear, reports shared with the Trump administration from the U.S. technical team in Riyadh seemed optimistic, the sources said.
Ukrainian officials have also been...
Rwanda planning to attack Burundi, president tells BBC
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Continue reading...Trump bemoans a portrait of him - but gets a new one from Putin
A "distorted" portrait in the US was removed after the president complained, but he was "touched" by a Russian gift.
Continue reading...Trump's national security team's chat app leak stuns Washington
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Continue reading...Turkey protests are about far more than fate of Istanbul's mayor
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Continue reading...Man swallowed by Seoul sinkhole found dead
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Continue reading...Russia accused of 'hollow' peace talks as strike injures dozens
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Continue reading...Greenlanders unite to fend off the US as Trump seeks control of island
Lisa Sólrun Christiansen gets up at 4 a.m. most days and gets to work knitting thick wool sweaters coveted by buyers around the world for their warmth and colorful patterns celebrating Greenland’s traditional Inuit culture.
Her morning routine includes a quick check of the news, but these days the ritual shatters her peace because of all the stories about President Donald Trump’s designs on her homeland.
“I get overwhelmed,’’ Christiansen said earlier this month as she looked out to sea, where impossibly blue icebergs floated just offshore.
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Continue reading...Her morning routine includes a quick check of the news, but these days the ritual shatters her peace because of all the stories about President Donald Trump’s designs on her homeland.
“I get overwhelmed,’’ Christiansen said earlier this month as she looked out to sea, where impossibly blue icebergs floated just offshore.
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Teenage Afghan girls were banned from school - now these classes are their only option
Religious schools increasingly offer a range of subjects as the mainstream education ban enters its fourth year.
Continue reading...Kristi Noem, Scott Turner establish effort to end 'exploitation of housing programs' by illegal immigrants
The Trump administration has begun an interagency effort to end what it describes as the "exploitation of housing programs" by illegal aliens.
In a statement published on Monday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that it had established the "American Housing Programs for American Citizens" Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The agreement was also signed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The MOU is geared towards ending "the wasteful misappropriation of taxpayer dollars to benefit illegal aliens...
Continue reading...In a statement published on Monday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that it had established the "American Housing Programs for American Citizens" Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The agreement was also signed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The MOU is geared towards ending "the wasteful misappropriation of taxpayer dollars to benefit illegal aliens...
Palestinian Oscar winner held by Israeli soldiers
Hamdan Ballal was attacked by masked settlers in the occupied West Bank, activists say.
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