At least 50 migrants sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally, report finds | US immigration | The Guardian

"The government calls them all 'illegal aliens.' But of the 90 cases where the method of crossing is known, 50 men report that they came legally to the United States, with advanced US government permission, at an official border crossing point," Cato said in its report...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/19/el-salvador-prison-migrants-us-report 

 

Trump's Legal Challenges, Explained (Tonya Mosley; Fresh Air podcast)

New York Times reporter Alan Feuer is part of a team covering Trump's legal battles. The first of four criminal case trials against the former president is expected to start March 25.

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/22/1233132273/how-trumps-trials-for-91-felony-charges-in-4-states-could-take-over-his-campaign

Legal storm clouds gather over Donald Trump’s future

"The majority of the evidence that we have on hand says that people who like Trump don't care what he does – it just doesn't matter if he breaks the law," said Francisco I Pedraza, a political scientist at University of California Riverside. For those voters, "he can do no wrong".

"We know from a lot of social science research that people who back Trump also register very high on validated and reliable indexes of racial resentment, for example, he serves that and offers a kind of politics that responds to that flavor of politics," Pedraza said. "Anything else doesn't matter as long as he continues to be a champion for racist [sentiments]."…https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/08/trump-legal-threat-investigations-courts

Stephen Miller to launch a new legal group to give Biden fits - POLITICO

...America First Legal will focus on a few things: executive branch issues and giving Joe Biden headaches...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/26/stephen-miller-legal-group-478167

Release of Flynn memo backfires on GOP ‘Obamagate’ pushers as experts point out ‘this was all legal’ – Raw Story

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s acting spy chief Richard Grenell sent top Republican senators a memo outlining all of the people who may have been involved in the “unmasking” of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, including former Vice President Joe Biden — a clear attempt to boost the president’s “Obamagate” conspiracy theory. https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/release-of-flynn-memo-backfires-on-gop-obamagate-pushers-as-experts-point-out-this-was-all-legal/

Bill Barr threatens legal action to force states to reopen: ‘We have to give businesses more freedom to operate’ – Raw Story

Attorney General William Barr will consider legal action to force governors to ease social distancing requirements for their states. President Donald Trump’s attorney general told talk radio host Hugh Hewitt that extraordinary measures to fight the spread of coronavirus were justified, but Barr argued that at some point they infringed on constitutional rights, reported Bloomberg. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/bill-barr-threatens-legal-action-to-force-states-to-reopen-we-have-to-give-businesses-more-freedom-to-operate/

Trump’s impeachment lawyers’ glaring legal error - Vox

That’s not what “high crimes and misdemeanors” means. ...
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/22/21075468/trump-impeachment-high-crimes-misdemeanors

Stephen Miller & President Trump -- Miller Reveals the Weakness of the Trump Legal Argument on the Wall | National Review

One of the first rules of effective litigation is that you don’t want your client to make statements out loud that reveal the weakness of your legal case. On Sunday morning, Trump adviser Stephen Miller violated that rule. In a remarkable exchange with Chris Wallace, he demonstrated the extraordinary weakness of the administration’s statutory argument. Here’s the exchange:..
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/stephen-millers-own-words-show-the-weakness-of-the-trump-legal-argument-on-the-wall/

The Trump border wall faces a serious legal obstacle - Quartz

US president Donald Trump has staked a lot on his plans to build a wall along the border with Mexico. He has shut down the federal government over its alleged failure to budget sufficiently for this project and insists that a barrier will solve drug trafficking and immigration woes, even threatening to declare a national emergency to get this done. His insistence is disconcerting, sure. However, his plan is not realistic.....
https://qz.com/1527150/the-trump-border-wall-faces-a-serious-legal-obstacle/

President Admits Focus of Trump Tower Meeting Was Getting Dirt on Clinton - The New York Times

President Trump claimed that the June 2016 meeting was "totally legal," though it is a key subject of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/us/politics/trump-tower-meeting-donald-jr.html

Abortion rates go down when countries make it legal: report

Abortion rates have fallen over the past 25 years, even as more countries have made the procedure legal and easier to get, according to a new report released Tuesday....

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/abortion-rates-go-down-when-countries-make-it-legal-report-n858476

A New Report Shows How the Trump Administration Is Targeting Asylum Seekers -- Mother Jones

When President Trump issued an executive order last January to make the criminal prosecution of immigration offenses a "high priority," those cases already accounted for more than half of all federal prosecutions. Now, a year later, a damning new report released on Thursday from Human Rights First, an international human rights advocacy organization reveals that the Trump Administration is targeting not just illegal immigrants, but also refugees who are legally seeking asylum in the United States.....
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/a-new-report-shows-how-the-trump-administration-is-targeting-asylum-seekers/

Government Shutdown Because Trump and Republicans Want to End Legal Immigration, Congressman Gutierrez Says -- Newsweek

Gutierrez added that Democrats were already willing to "go build the wall themselves" if it meant protecting dreamers, but the president shifted the goalposts at the last minute—again. ....
http://www.newsweek.com/republicans-immigration-government-shutdown-border-wall-dreamers-daca-786282

Why Common Critiques of DACA Are Misleading - The New York Times

Defenders of President Trump’s decision to rescind an Obama-era immigration policy that shielded young immigrants from deportation have offered misleading critiques of the program. They say the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, known as DACA, led to a humanitarian crisis on the border, put native-born Americans out of work and conferred legal status to recipients. Here’s an assessment.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/politics/why-common-critiques-of-daca-are-misleading.html?_r=1

How to Talk to Your Kids About Marijuana in a Society Where It Is Increasingly Legal | Alternet

Have you had the cannabis conversation with your kids?...
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/watch-talking-kids-legal-weed-sensible-advice-behavioral-scientist

Trump’s top health official got a basic fact about opioid addiction very, very wrong

The myth he perpetuated isn't just false; it's dangerous.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/11/15613258/tom-price-opioid-epidemic