Trump threatens to abolish birthright citizenship through Congress after supreme court rules against him – live
Trump has targeted Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s board, over unproved allegations of mortgage fraud.The court also rejected Trump’s attempt to change rules for late-arriving mail-in ballots. Trump has claimed that such ballots are vulnerable to fraud. Photograph: Samuel Corum/CNP/ShutterstockIn other developments: The supreme court rejected Trump’s request to review a 2023 verdict from a New York jury that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E Jean Carroll.
- ▪Trump has targeted Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s board, over unproved allegations of mortgage fraud.The court also rejected Trump’s attempt to change rules for late-arriving mail-in ballots.
- ▪Trump has claimed that such ballots are vulnerable to fraud.
- ▪Photograph: Samuel Corum/CNP/ShutterstockIn other developments: The supreme court rejected Trump’s request to review a 2023 verdict from a New York jury that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E Jean Carroll.
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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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