Third federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order

Washington — A federal judge in New Hampshire on Monday blocked President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, becoming the third judge to do so amid more than half a dozen legal challenges to the president’s directive. U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante said at the end of a brief hearing that he would

Court blocks administration from deporting 3 Venezuelan immigrants to Gitmo

Albuquerque, N.M. — A federal court on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the president’s immigration crackdown. In a legal filing earlier in the day, lawyers for the men said the detainees “fit the profile of those

Russ Vought orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop work

The Trump administration late Saturday ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent government agency designed to protect consumers from corporate fraud and scams, to halt much of its work, amid an ongoing overhaul of the federal bureaucracy. In an email to CFPB staff Saturday, Russ Vought — the newly confirmed director of the Office of Management