https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/business/economy/trump-recession-tariffs-inflation.html
President Trump and his advisers say his policies may cause short-term pain but will produce big gains over time. Many economists are skeptical of those arguments.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5199813-new-york-post-elon-musk-impeachment-judge-boasberg/
The editorial board of The New York Post went after tech billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday, stating that he is “way out of his lane” in calling for the impeachment of a judge who temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
“Elon Musk is way out of his lane in cheering a bid to impeach federal Judge James Boasberg, who’s put a temporary hold on deportation flights of illegal migrant gangbangers,” the editorial board wrote in their Sunday piece, which was highlighted by Mediaite.
“The case seems destined to go all the way to the Supreme Court. Can the feds simply declare anyone a TdA member before putting them on a plane off to an El Salvadoran prison?” the Post editorial board questioned in their piece.
“Which makes it just plain silly for Musk to tweet ‘necessary’ of a Texas rep’s plan to file to impeach the judge: It’s nothing of the kind, and cheering it only makes Musk look reckless — a reputation he doesn’t need when many DOGE actions also face court challenge,” they added.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5200059-white-house-escalates-fight-deportations/
President Trump and his advisers are ratcheting up their fight over his immigration policy, seeking to muscle past court orders aimed at pumping the brakes.
They expect the president’s efforts to secure borders to wind up in the conservative-majority Supreme Court, the sooner the better. And they’re willing to challenge the judiciary to secure what Trump and many Americans say they want: fewer immigrants who lack legal status and less crime.
Conservatives who support the president cheer his efforts to circumnavigate lower courts. Democrats and legal institutionalists, however, argue that Trump’s unprecedented approach to statutes and the Constitution further politicize the judiciary and risks pushing the nation into a destructive clash.
White House immigration czar Tom Homan on Monday told Fox News he did not care what District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled, adding, “We’re not stopping.”
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/17/trump-judge-deportation-venezuelans-el-salvador
A federal judge gave the Justice Department a Tuesday deadline to provide additional information on the Trump administration's defiance of a court order halting deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members, according to a court docket.
The big picture: The Trump administration's decision to disregard the judge's order sets up a high stakes battle between the power of the executive and judicial branches.
Driving the news: The Department of Justice on Monday asked to cancel a hearing in the case scheduled for later that afternoon, stating it would not be providing any more information about the flights, but U.S. District Judge James Boasberg denied the request.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-administration-politics-us-live-updates-2046345
Alegal standoff is unfolding today as the Trump administration faces intense scrutiny over its recent deportation of over 200 individuals, including suspected members of a Venezuelan criminal gang. The deportations, which took place over the weekend, have sparked a heated courtroom battle, with Judge James E. Boasberg demanding answers about whether the administration violated his court order.
Igros Moshe (Choshen Mishpat II #75.4) Question A very sick person whom the doctors think will live only at most another week has now developed a new illness such as pneumonia, is it permitted or even obligatory to treat the new illness? Answer It is certain and obvious that there is an obligation to try and cure him from the second condition even if the first condition is incurable. I have no understanding why this is even a question as long as it doesn’t worsen the original issue. If the doctors say they don’t know whether the treatment of the second problem will make the first worse it depends on the reason for their uncertainty. If they simply say they don’t know and this is not even discussed in the medical literature then it is not even considered a doubt against those who say it will help. Even if this is not the view of expert doctors but of ordinary people who say they know of cases that it has worked. Until you find a doctor to treat him he needs to be properly fed if he is hungry. The best should be done for the patient according to the view of the doctor and if there is no doctor one needs to follow the best advice of non doctors. This is why it is prohibited to live in a place without a doctor
Igros Moshe (Choshen Mishpat II #75.7) Question Concerning treating a very old person who is sick. Answer There is no question there is the same obligation to treat him as with a younger person. even if he doesn’t want to live anymore and it is prohibited to even think that he should not be treated similarly in terms of treatment, age is not a factor in deciding priority of treatment.
A federal judge lashed out at the Trump administration Monday for refusing to answer questions about flights deporting Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act after he ordered them to turn around the planes.
It was a remarkable hearing in which a Justice Department attorney repeatedly declined to provide details about the flights that landed in El Salvador on Saturday evening, saying he was “not authorized” to do so, a rare instance of an attorney rebuffing a judge’s questions.
A federal judge berated attorneys for the Department of Justice on Monday after they claimed an oral order he gave over the weekend was “not enforceable.”
“These weren’t statements. This was an order,” U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg exclaimed during the hearing.
“An oral directive is not enforceable as an injunction,” a document from the DOJ filed Monday reads.
“That’s a heckuva stretch,” Boasberg said at the hearing on Monday.
The swift rise in diagnoses for everything from autism to ADHD may be doing more harm than good.
Some physicians fear diagnostic labels increasingly pathologize healthy bodies.
He campaigned on deporting gang members, but he can’t defy court orders.
Americans won’t miss the Venezuelan and MS-13 gang members dispatched by the Trump Administration to El Salvador on the weekend. Most of them are criminals who were in the U.S. illegally. But it’s still troubling to see U.S. officials appear to disdain the law in the name of upholding it.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/18/politics/trump-deportations-judge-executive-power/index.html
The most chilling aspect of a new White House claim of boundless executive power is not whether officials ignored a judge’s order to halt deportations of Venezuelan gang members.
It’s that some senior Trump administration aides seem not to care if they did. There are even claims that some judges are simply too junior to question the actions of a president.
The furor caused by the administration’s peacetime use of wartime powers under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act is the latest, and perhaps most overt, sign of President Donald Trump’s sense of omnipotence. He’s also betting voters will reward him for, in his view, keeping them safe with ruthless immigration enforcement rather than recoil from his challenges to the Constitution.
IDF says it targeted mid-level Hamas commanders and is prepared to widen offensive beyond airstrikes; death toll reportedly over 230; White House back offensive, says it was consulted beforehand
