In Ukraine and Gaza, Trump finds out that ending wars is tougher than it looks

 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/19/politics/trump-peacemaker-ukraine-russia-gaza-israel/index.html

President Donald Trump is finding out that campaign trail bravura over peace deals can’t yield quick wins as wars rage.

As Trump made the tiniest of steps forward Tuesday on his peace plan for Ukraine, another ceasefire, for which he claimed personal credit, shattered. Israel launched a new onslaught on Hamas in Gaza, killing hundreds of civilians.

The US president’s call with a largely intransigent Russian President Vladimir Putin as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to full-scale war highlighted two leaders whose own political priorities will likely supersede his own.

Such is the unpromising geopolitical atmosphere standing in the way of Trump’s dream of a legacy as a global peacemaker, which he’d predicted would be fulfilled as soon as he returned to the Oval Office.

Readouts of his chat with Putin only reinforced the fears of Ukraine’s government and its European allies that Trump sees the war as a sideshow to his wider quest of a rapprochement with Moscow. This leads him to see the conflict through a Russian lens. And it explains why he berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky until he signed up for Trump’s 30-day ceasefire plan, but had only praise for Putin when he refused to buy in on Tuesday.

Trump's Approval Rating Plunges With America's Most Accurate Pollster

 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-poll-tracker-march-18-2046375

President Donald Trump's approval rating has taken a significant hit, according to America's most accurate pollster.

According to a poll conducted by AtlasIntel between March 7 and 12 among 2,550 respondents, Trump's approval rating currently stands at 47 percent, while 52 percent disapprove of his job performance. The poll had a margin of error of +/- 2 percentage points.

This is down from previous polls conducted by AtlasIntel in January and February, which found that 50 percent approved Trump's job performance, while 50 percent disapproved.

AtlasIntel was the most accurate polling company of the 2024 election, according to veteran pollster Nate Silver.

Atlas Intel's latest poll shows a decline in Trump's approval rating, a trend also reflected by Newsweek's poll tracker.

Newsweek's average of the 10 most recent polls found that Trump's approval rating is 47 percent, while his disapproval rating is 50 percent, giving him a net approval rating of -3 points.

Health Systems' New AI Dilemma: Bet Now, or Wait for Better?

 https://www.newsweek.com/health-systems-artificial-intelligence-ai-integration-2046465

In the health care industry, generative AI is growing savvier by the day. But despite the tech's rapid advancement—or because of it—some health care organizations are still deploying with caution.

Hundreds of health systems and clinics across the United States have started infusing AI into their workflows, though many of them are taking it slow, executive leaders told Newsweek in recent conversations. For example, they might pilot a generative AI tool in one department or focus group, then gather feedback and make tweaks before rolling it out to an entire specialty or provider group.

Tensions are building as tech companies urge health systems to keep pace with AI's rapid evolution—while health systems continue to pull back on the reins. As health care organizations evaluate their options, many are pondering a few key questions: Is it better to act now or wait for the next best thing? Is "good enough" AI truly good enough for now? Which is riskier: going all in or holding back?

Chief Justice Roberts hits back at Trump calling for a judge's impeachment

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The judge who tried to stop the deportation planes is not happy with the Trump administration

 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/judge-boasberg-trump-deportation-hearing-00234945

James Boasberg, the chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, was clearly galled by the government’s actions and legal arguments in the case, particularly its assertion that an order he issued Saturday to turn around any planes carrying such deportees had no force once they were outside U.S. territorial waters.

At the heart of the issue is Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 statute intended to bolster the president’s ability to deport foreign nationals from countries with which the United States is at war. Trump issued a proclamation labeling Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal organization, as sufficiently linked to the Venezuelan government to trigger those wartime powers.

Boasberg on Saturday ordered the administration to refrain from removing anyone from the country under Trump’s claimed authority after five Venezuelans who feared deportation under the Alien Enemies Act filed suit. Those five men apparently remain in the country, in U.S. custody. But planes carrying about 250 other Venezuelan nationals — many of whom the Trump administration accused of being members of Tren de Aragua — departed from the U.S. shortly before Boasberg issued his order. They landed Saturday night in El Salvador, which had agreed to take the prisoners for a fee.

At moments during the 45-minute hearing, the normally unflappable judge raised his voice, rejecting the Justice Department’s contention that the government had an exceptionally urgent need to move the planes.

Boasberg implied that the government had intentionally hurried the planes off the ground on Saturday afternoon because the government knew he had scheduled a hearing at 5 p.m. Saturday. “Any plane that you put into the air in or around that time, you knew that I was having a hearing at 5,” the judge said with evident frustration.

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Trump Calls for Judge in Deportations Case to Be Impeached, Drawing Rare Rebuke From Roberts

 https://time.com/7269156/trump-judge-boasberg-impeach/

President Trump on Tuesday escalated his campaign to discredit judges who get in his way, calling on Congress to impeach the judge at the center of a legal fight over the deportation of hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador. Trump’s brazen assault on the judicial branch drew an unusual rebuke from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

Posting on his website TruthSocial, Trump called for the impeachment of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who ordered Trump to halt his use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants suspected of belonging to transnational criminal gangs. Despite the judge’s order, administration officials let the deportations continue in apparent defiance of the court, and flights carrying 261 people removed from the U.S. landed over the weekend in El Salvador, where the Salvadorian government says they have been imprisoned.

Chief Justice Roberts Criticizes Trump’s Call to Impeach Judges

 https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/chief-justice-roberts-criticizes-trumps-call-to-impeach-judges-e3b2be89?mod=hp_lead_pos2

President Trump called for impeaching a federal judge who issued a temporary order against an administration deportation plan, drawing a rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts for violating American legal practice dating from the founding.

Roberts issues rare public pushback after Trump calls for judge’s impeachment

 https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5200768-john-roberts-trump-judge-impeachment/

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare public statement Tuesday pushing back after President Trump called to impeach a federal judge that ruled against his administration in a high-profile deportation case. 

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose,” Roberts said.

The chief justice’s statement came hours after Trump called for impeaching U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, an appointee of former President Obama who blocked Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to swiftly deport Venezuelan migrants the administration has labeled as gang members.

The plaintiffs have questioned whether Trump officials complied with the judge’s Saturday order to turn any planes around, sparking a remarkable battle between the administration and the judiciary.

Chief Justice Slams Trump for Impeachment Call, 'Not Appropriate'

 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-administration-politics-us-live-updates-2046345

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts made a rare critique of Donald Trump on Tuesday, after the president called for the impeachment of a judge who ruled against his administration's deportation policies.

"For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose," Roberts, a conservative judge, said in a statement.

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‘We’re Not Stopping’: Trump Border Czar Vows to Ignore Judges

https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-not-stopping-trump-border-czar-vows-to-ignore-judges/

 Border czar Tom Homan pledged to openly defy judges who get in the way of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.

“We’re not stopping,” Homan said on Fox & Friends Monday morning. “I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming.”

Homan’s remarks come as the Trump administration stands accused of violating judicial orders halting deportations. On Saturday, a federal judge blocked the president from deporting suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua without a hearing. But two planes carrying more than 250 migrants landed in El Salvador nonetheless.

Trump escalates fight with federal courts over deportation authority

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/17/trump-court-orders-defy-deportations/

The Trump administration’s battle with the federal court system escalated sharply on Monday, with government lawyers calling for the removal of a judge who blocked the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members and refusing to answer some questions in court.

Some legal experts describe the pushback as a breakdown in the fragile balance of powers between the branches of government, which includes lower courts making initial rulings about executive initiatives that can be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.

Other experts offered more modulated assessments of the Trump administration’s aggressive legal posture, while acknowledging the judicial system was being put under intense strain.